Free Email Service to Any Cell Phone From Your Computer

Teleflip™ started when the founder became increasingly frustrated at his inability to send text messages to friends' cell phones from his PC. It was of course possible, but you had to know the cell phone provider, the correct domain name and the correct syntax for the email address. There had to be an easier way....Teleflip™ was born.

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All you have to do is enter the phone number in the email address. This is a teriffic free service. I just tried it and it work great!!!

eg.1234567890@teleflip.com

Alternatively way is to send free SMS messages using Yahoo Mobile.

Any concern that they will spam your phone?

i think they can still spam if they conform to the CAN-SPAM act....

Nudle said:

<< Anyone know how I can find out what mobile provider a phone number belongs to? >>

http://www.searchbug.com/peoplefinder/landorcell.aspx

Holy Hot Deals. This is awesome. I tried it and got a message on my phone (Verizon Wireless) in less than 5 seconds.

any cell phone? can my phone receive emails even if i don't subscribe sprintpcs internet services? if yes, will i be charged for receiving emails?

You can use this Area Decoder to look up a number...just enter the 10 digit number in the field for all the details.

Nudle said:

<< Kewl beanz. Thanks. This is certainly better than typing @messaging.sprintpcs.com or @mobile.att.net.

Anyone know how I can find out what mobile provider a phone number belongs to? >>

Actually, that site doesn't work very well anymore now that number portability has taken hold. It only goes by the area code and first 3 digits of the phone number. So, it only shows which company "owned" that batch of numbers prior to number portability.

For that matter, teleflip also has a few months delay in updating their systems (according to their website). I just sent a message to my phone using teleflip, but received nothing. I suspect it is going to my old carrier.

japorms said:

<< Nudle said:

<< Anyone know how I can find out what mobile provider a phone number belongs to? >>

http://www.searchbug.com/peoplefinder/landorcell.aspx >>

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We may also collect non-personally identifying information about your visit to our website and other similar sites based on your browsing activities. This information may include the pages you browse and products and services viewed or ordered for example. This helps us to better manage and develop our sites, to provide you with a more enjoyable, customized service and experience in the future, and to help us develop and deliver better products and services tailored to your individual interests and needs.

How will we use your information? We may use your information for a number of purposes which includes: managing and administering your account; delivering any services, products or information requested by you; responding to complaints or account enquiries; verifying your identity when required (you may lose your password or security information for example, and we may then need to ask you for other 'identifiable' information to protect your data from unauthorized access). ---->>>We may also undertake market and product analysis based on your use of our services and contact you with information about new developments, products, services and special offers by means such as mobile text message (SMS) or Email, subject to any preferences expressed by you. We may also tell you about the products and services of carefully selected third parties and allow you to receive advertising and marketing information from those selected third parties without passing control of your personal information to the third party. For example we may send you an email or SMS according to any preferences indicated by you and/or according to your interests.

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i guess it means, they won't directly spam you, but they'll someone else your information to spam you.
great service!

doesn't work for me

Remote mail server told me: 551 User not local and forwarding not allowed

Worked for me on MetroPCS. I didn't know I had messaging.

I have bee using a redirect for my cell phone for a while. Basically since I own my Domain I give people my Mobile@domain.com and it just redirects the email to my 123345@cellprovider.com email address. I would think using this service above is just a way to build a HUGE database of Valid Cell Phone email addresses so they can sell them later or even worse somebody hack their system and steal them and then your Local Number Portability where you keep your phone number will suck as you will need to block your phone email. If you setup an alias/domain you can filter what messages get to your phone. I would just be careful as cell phone spam overseas is a BIG problem.

XLarge said:

<< any cell phone? can my phone receive emails even if i don't subscribe sprintpcs internet services? if yes, will i be charged for receiving emails? >>

yes

the AIM thing works excellent!!!

How can i send international SMS with AIM??

fartblossom said:

<< amethyst1 said:

<< Not as good as just using AIM to send SMS. All you gotta do is type in '+1phonenumber' as the screename and send the message. Works quick! Try it! not many people know about this feature. >>


Confirmed! Nice tip, bro! >>

This might be a little off topic, but does this work from other compatible IM programs? What does everyone use here for IM? I havent used IM in years, and was wondering what the best program(s) were these days.

Bump, thanks.

cool, thanks OP. This makes it a lot easier.

kyungjpark said:

<< ....

We may also tell you about the products and services of carefully selected third parties and allow you to receive advertising and marketing information from those selected third parties without passing control of your personal information to the third party. For example we may send you an email or SMS according to any preferences indicated by you and/or according to your interests.

i guess it means, they won't directly spam you, but they'll someone else your information to spam you.
great service! >>

Reminds me of bluemountain, where sending out a greeting-(or whatever)-card was agreeing to them spamming the addressee (and you of course).
No merci.
here is a list of the most common providers I use...

10digitnumber@mobile.mycingular.com
10digitnumber@mobile.att.net
10digitnumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
10digitnumber@msg.myvzw.com
10digitnumber@messaging.nextel.com

Do they charge for reading messages the same as as receiving a call or is it an additional charge on top of that?

I have another question. Does anyone know if you can send ringtones to another phone via sms or email using metropcs? For example, say a friend of mine has a ringtone that she/he downloaded on their phone, and they have textmessaging. Could they send it to me?