Send text messages from iPhone without a fee.

[alfredo]

You use AOL's AIM on your iPhone.

http://db.tidbits.com/article/9690


With the release of the iPhone 2.0 software, you can send SMS messages from your iPhone for free. The secret is a capability that already exists on your Mac: send it via iChat/AIM. (This technique works on the iPod touch, too, but I'll just use "iPhone" from here on out to avoid writing "iPhone or iPod touch" over and over.) Here's how: (See Link)

[Catch22Dem]

1. Yeah, but you have to sign up for AIM...yuk.

Besides, I have unlimited text on my plan, so why not just text?

[alfredo]

3. I dislike text msgs, such a rip.

[Catch22Dem]

6. How are they different than IM?

If the IM is coming from your phone, isn't that simply a text msg?

[alfredo]

7. It could be how it is handled on the network.

[redirish28]

2. Free.... hmmm... I remember when the orginal I phone came out the bill

contained a record of EVERY text message a person wrote to another person.... Wonder how FISA is going to love ipone 2.0

[alfredo]

4. they changed that real quick. People were getting pages and pages

of the record.

It took OSX years to come into its own, I expect the iPhone will be ass kicking as the apps are developed for it and the technology is refined.

MobileMe looks pretty good so far. iDisk is so much easier now that it is accessed from the browser. It used to be from the finder. I can see a convergence between OSX for the desktop and the iPhone OSX. They want the interface consistent between the desktop and mobile. I can see desktops going touch to the point where the mouse will be for those who can't, for some reason, work the touch screen.

[alfredo]

5. Check out this patent

http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/11/more.apple.touch.patents/