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JerBear
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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 Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:07 am Post subject: Text Message to/from USA |
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I've tried many times and have never successfully gotten a text from my cell phone to the USA or vice versa, HOWEVER, I just discovered a 2-way online system that DOES work. It's called Joopz (www.joopz.com). You have to create a free account and then you can text up to 50 times per month to any cell phone in the USA or Canada and if/when you get a response, it's displayed on your Joops homepage on the web.
Cool huh?
Still no way that I know of to text directly to/from your Korean cell phone to the USA or Canada, but this has got to be the next best thing. |
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skconqueror
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| I do it on occasion though skype (yes, I know it isnt free) |
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i4NI
Joined: 17 May 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T let you send texts via their website or you can email them texts and they can reply through your email address. |
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JerBear
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 2:07 am Post subject: |
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| i4NI wrote: |
| Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T let you send texts via their website or you can email them texts and they can reply through your email address. |
True, however, only Joopz, to my knowledge, allows the recipient to reply immediately right from their own cell phone in such a way that you can read their message on your end. |
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machellebelle
Joined: 16 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| I send texts via AIM |
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JerBear
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 2:40 am Post subject: |
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| machellebelle wrote: |
| I send texts via AIM |
To a cell phone? |
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i4NI
Joined: 17 May 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| JerBear wrote: |
| i4NI wrote: |
| Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T let you send texts via their website or you can email them texts and they can reply through your email address. |
True, however, only Joopz, to my knowledge, allows the recipient to reply immediately right from their own cell phone in such a way that you can read their message on your end. |
People can immediately reply to you.. I was "texting" my friend via email back an forth. He'd get it as a text message, and I'd get mine as an email.
Also I forgot you could text on AIM 
Good point, and now i'm gonna have to put that to use |
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machellebelle
Joined: 16 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 2:46 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, you put +1 in front of their number as the screen name. It's free for you and just charges regular texting on their end. All my friends and my parents have unlimited text messaging on their plans, so it works out well. They can also respond just by directly responding to the message you send |
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JerBear
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| machellebelle wrote: |
| Yes, you put +1 in front of their number as the screen name. It's free for you and just charges regular texting on their end. All my friends and my parents have unlimited text messaging on their plans, so it works out well. They can also respond just by directly responding to the message you send |
That's a pretty cool system too then. Personally, I don't want to download any software (required for AIM standard) and their web-based java system always crashes my computer. But thanks for the tip!!! |
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Wisconsinite
Joined: 05 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I send text messages to Korea on a daily basis and my friends in Korea send them back to me in America. We have never had a problem...his phone number even shows up when I get the text on my Verizon phone...that's cool. |
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JerBear
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Wisconsinite wrote: |
| I send text messages to Korea on a daily basis and my friends in Korea send them back to me in America. We have never had a problem...his phone number even shows up when I get the text on my Verizon phone...that's cool. |
I wish I knew how your phone and those of your friends differ from mine and those of my friends. It just flat out fails EVERY time! |
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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| JerBear wrote: |
| Wisconsinite wrote: |
| I send text messages to Korea on a daily basis and my friends in Korea send them back to me in America. We have never had a problem...his phone number even shows up when I get the text on my Verizon phone...that's cool. |
I wish I knew how your phone and those of your friends differ from mine and those of my friends. It just flat out fails EVERY time! |
They probably have expensive plans with the option of texting internationally. It's not rocket science.
Can you text through Skype just like in AIM? |
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JerBear
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| DrOctagon wrote: |
| JerBear wrote: |
| Wisconsinite wrote: |
| I send text messages to Korea on a daily basis and my friends in Korea send them back to me in America. We have never had a problem...his phone number even shows up when I get the text on my Verizon phone...that's cool. |
I wish I knew how your phone and those of your friends differ from mine and those of my friends. It just flat out fails EVERY time! |
They probably have expensive plans with the option of texting internationally. It's not rocket science.
Can you text through Skype just like in AIM? |
You have to pay for skype texting but aim and joopz are free. Anyway, I've tried texting through skype before and it failed as well. |
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Kevtron
Joined: 17 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| JerBear wrote: |
| Wisconsinite wrote: |
| I send text messages to Korea on a daily basis and my friends in Korea send them back to me in America. We have never had a problem...his phone number even shows up when I get the text on my Verizon phone...that's cool. |
I wish I knew how your phone and those of your friends differ from mine and those of my friends. It just flat out fails EVERY time! |
I'm not sure what's different, but the first time I texted home I was hammered on New Years and wanted to share the love. Just typed in the number all normal like, my brother got it fine, and seemed to have no problem replying as I got a text from him right after. |
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ucbhanna
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject: RE: |
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I find that emailing texts are the best way to go... it's fast and reliable.
So far, I know that Verizon is [email protected] (without the dashes)
and T-Mobile is [email protected] (without the dashes)
and AT&T is [email protected] (without the dashes) |
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