If you don’t have a mobile phone, or like in my case, you need your cell for something else (like shooting a video) at the same time you need to send a text, you are in luck.
There are 3 simply ways to send a text without using a cell phone:
There are MANY websites that will send an text message without registering or going through any hoops. Companies like A Free SMS, Send SMS Now, SendaText make their money off the advertising on their web pages.
If you know the company that the recipient is on you can send a text to them using their text email address. A text email address is just the phone-number@text.domain.com
For instance if I want to send a message to a buddy of mine with cell number 403-252-9665 who uses Telus, I would email 403-252-9665@msg.telus.com.
To make your life easier, here are the most popular cellular companies email to text or email to sms addresses:
AT&T | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@text.att.net |
Bell Atlantic | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@message.bam.com |
Bell Canada | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@txt.bell.ca |
Comcast | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@comcastpcs.textmsg.com |
Fido | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@fido.ca |
Mobility Bermuda | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@ml.bm |
Mobistar Belgi | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@mobistar.be |
Mobitel Tanzan | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@sms.co.tz |
Mobtel Srbija | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@mobtel.co.yu |
Orange <10-dig | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@orange.net |
Presidents Choice | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@txt.bell.ca |
Rogers | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@pcs.rogers.com |
Telia Denmark | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@gsm1800.telia.dk |
Telus | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@msg.telus.com |
T-Mobile Austria | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@sms.t-mobile.at |
T-Mobile Germany | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@t-d1-sms.de |
T-Mobile UK | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@t-mobile.uk.net |
T-Mobile | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@tmomail.net |
US Cellular | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@email.uscc.net |
Verizon @vtext.com (or | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@vzwpix.com for photos and video) |
Videotron (Quebec) | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@Videotron (Quebec) Reports that is shut down the email to text gateway in 2017 |
Virgin Mobile | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@vmobl.com |
Vodafone Italy | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@sms.vodafone.it |
Vodafone Japan | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@c.vodafone.ne.jp |
Vodafone Spain | 10-Digit-Cell-Number@vodafone.es |
Google Voice is a (mostly) free service which you can send and receive texts using your computer:
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That last one.. google voice requires a phone to sign up. No phone .. no google voice.
This works very well, even w/o an an~droid phone! And that is a good thing.
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