Send Text Messages to Email

It baffles me how few people realize you can send a text message from your cell phone directly to your email address. Instead of typing in a phone number, just enter the email address. I use this nifty little feature all the time to send myself reminders or to get photos off of my phone. In the address book on my phone I have contacts specifically created for Flickr, Gmail, my SVSU email, and maybe a few others.

Verizon even lets you send something from an email address directly to your phone using vzwpix.com. The service creates an email address of xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com where you can send the email to. Their service then converts it and sends it on to your phone as a text message. I don’t know if other cell phone service providers have something similar, but I’d imagine they would. If you know of something, leave a comment.


Comments

  1. 1. Eric
    7/27/2006 at 10:33pm

    Check this table out for other cell phone companies. You can also use AOL instant messenger to send SMS messages. Just add a buddy in the format “+1″ then the 10 digit phone number (+19895555555). Kinda neat…

  2. 2. Nick
    7/27/2006 at 11:39pm

    Very sweet!

  3. 3. Ryan
    3/31/2007 at 4:46pm

    Good find man, ive been looking for something like this for a longgg time

    ~Ryan

  4. 4. summer
    6/16/2007 at 6:36pm

    need to know how to send photos from my email to my cell phone

  5. 5. Heather
    3/6/2008 at 2:42pm

    Does anyone know if it is possible to have incoming texts also be sent automatically to an email address as well?

  6. 6. Chad
    5/5/2008 at 4:15pm

    To preserve only a select few messages (and avoid the hassles of software and cables), check out Treasuremytext. This free Web service archives and manages all messages forwarded from your phone. Later, you can visit the Treasuremytext site to review your messages, add notes and organize them in custom folders.

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