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SMS apps, I just don't get you!
%PM, %b %America/Chicago %2011, %R Technology, TelephonyA number of SMS, and group SMS, apps have come out on the iPhone AppStore (and in other smartphone AppStores for that matter). Ping Chat was something that came out first (as far as I remember), then textPlus, then kik, and more recently a former "check-in" service, BrightKite, got into the group texting game. Heck, even BlackBerry is thinking about brining their BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) to Android and iPhone...
I must admit, I have TextPlus, Kik and Ping Chat - but I don't get them. In order to contact someone using these, you must have them on your friend's list. Quite honestly, if I need to build a friendslist, I will just use a mobile IM client which accesses my existing Yahoo, MSN, AIM and Facebook accounts. No need to reinvent the wheel. Some services like TextPlus allow for free SMS sending to US and Canadian cellphones without needing their owners to be on TextPlus, but international SMS costs, so if it costs anyway, why not just text using my own carrier? (*sigh* I remember the good ol' days with VoiceStream/OmniPoint where international SMS were the same as domestic - just $0.10!)
Now if Google Voice were available globally, and there were free SMS between Google Voice numbers...then we'd be talking! ;-)
I must admit, I have TextPlus, Kik and Ping Chat - but I don't get them. In order to contact someone using these, you must have them on your friend's list. Quite honestly, if I need to build a friendslist, I will just use a mobile IM client which accesses my existing Yahoo, MSN, AIM and Facebook accounts. No need to reinvent the wheel. Some services like TextPlus allow for free SMS sending to US and Canadian cellphones without needing their owners to be on TextPlus, but international SMS costs, so if it costs anyway, why not just text using my own carrier? (*sigh* I remember the good ol' days with VoiceStream/OmniPoint where international SMS were the same as domestic - just $0.10!)
Now if Google Voice were available globally, and there were free SMS between Google Voice numbers...then we'd be talking! ;-)
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