07/19/2017
Training – sending text messages to cell phones.
Do you ever get tired of typing messages using your small keyboard on your smart phone? Yet when you try voice to text (VTT) seldom does it get all of the words correct. And if you are driving, that makes your hands free attempt even more dangerous because you are now trying to proof the message and fix the errors while you are driving. And to make it especially dangerous, you are doing all this at a time when your emotions heightened because of how ridiculous it seems that VTT just doesn’t nail it 100% of them time!
Until the services perfect VTT, one way you can limit the times you attempt to send text messages via your tiny key pad is to send messages from your computer, notebook, or notepad. You can do so from most any email program. At ONYX Financial & Insurance Services, we use MS Office 2010.
How to: Simply create a new eMail from your eMail program and use the appropriate eMail address so it will be delivered to the intended cell phone subscriber. Below is a reference chart to know the needed address. For instance, if I wanted to send myself a text message from my laptop using MS Office 2010, I would address the eMail to: [email protected]. That email will be delivered as a plain text message within my text messages on my smart phone.
US Cellphones:
The major US cellular carriers use the [email protected]_domain.com format for SMS to text capable cell phones, with a limit of 160 characters in the subject and message body (total).
Carrier Send Email to phonenumber@....
Alltel .alltel.com
AT&T .att.net
Nextel .nextel.com
Sprint .sprintpcs.com
SunCom .suncom.com
T-mobile .net
VoiceStream .net
Verizon .com (text only)
Verizon .com (pictures and videos)
Verizon users can register an alias at vtext.com to give out instead of their phone number. Both [email protected] and [email protected] will be valid addresses for the phone.
If you don't know the carrier, enter the number in 123-456-7890 format at Reverse phone number lookup.