PC text to SMS message -is it possible?

Factual Questions
1

Hi I’m sorry to do it, I’m here basically because I don’t have time/lazy.

I’m trying to send a SMS/text message to someone for support during their exams, but I wrote a really long one which will take me at least twice the time to write on my phone ( the exam hasn’t happened yet)

Is there a way (hopefully simple) that I can transfer the text that I wrote on my computer to the SD card or other memory in the phone to then use as my text message? My phone btw is old, a Sony Ericsson W710i flip phone hehe

Please don’t tell me about other ways to send SMS’ for free or online or otherwise; this is the only way I can be sure it gets to where it needs to go.

Thanks in advance.

2

You could use an online service to send the message to your phone and then forward it to the ultimate recipient.

3

Send yourself an email from your phone. You should be able to just send a text to your email address. When you get the email, you will have your phone’s email address. Then, send your typed-out text to the phone via its email address.

4

Or just use the online service provided by your cell phone carrier to send the message to the recipient. I know I can do that with Verizon.

5

I don’t get this part. Why would you think this won’t get your message to where it needs to go?

6

Precisely. I regularly use Yahoo Messenger, Google Chat and Google Voice to send text messages from my PC. It’s always quick and just as reliable as sending via phone.

I also hope that you mean that for “support during their exams” you don’t mean when they are actually taking the test, unless the professor/teacher allows outside help (though this might explain the length issue).

7

I want finals like that. Teach I would like to use my life line now.

8

You could use facebook if you both have a account with SMS registered with them. A major benefit is that if you exceed the allowable characters facebook adds ‘reply n (m?) for more’

9

The only thing I can think is if the intended recipient won’t know to receive it. But she could still send it to her own phone, then forward it.

10

Find out if their carrier has an email to sms gateway then email the message to their phone as text. For example sending email to 1234567890@sms.att.net makes it show up as a text message on the phone with the 1234567890 number (i think that’s the correct ATT address, done rely on me).

11

This.

Here’s a list of carrier SMS email gateways for US cell providers:

http://www.obviously.com/tech_tips/SMS_Text_Email_Gateway.html

12

Just to clarify and add additional “Thanks Yous” I should mention the recipient lives in Poland -it’s an international text :wink:

13

I use Skype for international calls and long texts , easy and cheap

www.skype.com

14

It’s been a while since I used IM but I seem to recall that I could send an SMS using AIM by IM -ing the full phone #. E.g. “+12345678901.”

15

I bought my daughter a “good deal” - 1000 SMS for 15 dollars/month. Well, she sent 1200 and those 200 SMS were $$$$
Your SMSs go throught your ISPs SMS service.
Anyway, I programmed her an easy portal/gateway for SMS using my nokia N95 in the USB-port with something like this

open_serial_port(“COM4”, 57600, 8, “None”, 1, “None”);

write_serial_port("AT+CMGF=1
");
…reading_port:

write_serial_port(“AT+CSCA=”+???"
");//???=number of your SMS operator_service_center

write_serial_port("AT+CMGS=“your number”
");

…reading_port

write_serial:port(what your message would be);
write(chr(26)); //ending bash
It is easy to do this with programs like terminal, beacause your phone is also a modem´. But more code is needed

16

What I do is email myself the text, then copy it from the incoming email on my iPhone and paste it into an SMS to send off. Meh, I get lazy and hate typing on the touchscreen sometimes.