There is a chica that I would like to stay in contact with. She has an ICE cell phone. I would call her except for two things. One, it would cost money, and two she speaks very little English and I am linguistically challenged in the other direction so non face to face verbal communication is a problem. She has no computer. I tried getting an email address set up for her and that failed. The only technology available at her end is her cell. If I can text to her I can translate ahead and avoid the real time language barrier.
In the US you can send a text message to a cell phone from email. It must be 160 characters or less to meet texting requirements.
Here is how you do it.
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Step 1
Log into your email or open your email program.
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Step 2
Start a new message.
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Step 3
Type the recipient's 10 digit cell phone number @ the cell carrier's email domain in the address box. For example if the message recipient uses Verizon it would be
cellnumber@vtext.com. Sometimes there's a special domain for text messaging; check with the cell carrier's web site.
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Step 4
Type your message making sure it doesn't exceed 160 characters, otherwise it may get cut off.
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Step 5
Send your message.
The recipient can then simply reply and their message will come back to your email. It works great across all US carriers. You simply have to know the carriers email domain.
Does this work for ICE phones?
What is their email domain?
P.S. There is a side bet that Irish Drifter will nail this one.
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