How to send free text messages from an iPhone
Posted by Dave Merten 
Jun 28, 2008 at 2:32pm
With current AT&T iPhone contracts, you get 200 free text messages a month. With the new 3G iPhones, this will change. You will need to pay $5.00 a month extra for these 200 messages. Today, I’m going to show you how to send an unlimited number of messages in US and Canada, for free.
How to send free text messages.
1. Create a new email message.
2. In the To: box, type 10digitnumber@teleflip.com. (1235551234@teleflip.com)
3. Type a message and click send.
4. The message will be sent to the cell phone with the number in the To: box
5. All received text messages will be sent to you as an email.
Note: This only works for US and Canadian numbers.
Also, there is a Web app that you can send free text messages with. It’s called TxtDrop and you can access it by typing “http://txtdrop.com/iphone/” in your iPhone’s Safari app. They also have a OS X widget here. Enjoy!
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RON Says:
“5. All recieved text messages will be sent to you as an email.”
“i “ before “e” except after “c”. Received!!!
Posted on July 01, 2008
sam Says:
You don’t need teleflip. Don’t use teleflip.
Based on what TC said, teleflip is for morons.
You can send text messages straight to other phones through their own networks if you want. If you need to send a message to a verizon customer, , alltel: , att: .
It’s not hard to add those as contacts in your address book. you can get the persons phone number just by having them put in your email address into the “To:” on their phone. Phones can text to email with no problem.
Posted on July 01, 2008
Mark Says:
We tried using Teleflip for a small business web application. Their service is extremely unreliable and we constantly ran into problems where the Cell Providers email-to-TXT gateway would reject messages sent by Teleflip because they had sent too many within that hour. They’re unreliable.
Posted on July 01, 2008
Jeremy Ricketts Says:
Thanks to the first commenter. That’s enough to make me steer clear of this service. Also, look at their home page. I saw ads for “make a free booty call” and other scammy types of services. meh.
Posted on July 01, 2008
Gene Says:
Of course, SOMEONE is going to pay for receiving an SMS in the end.
Interesting tip: AT&T;(don’t know about other providers) lets you create an email alias, so people can send you an SMS via email without your having to tell them your phone number.
Posted on July 01, 2008
Jorge Says:
ForeverSMS.com is another nice site fore sending free text messages.
Posted on July 01, 2008
Jason Sares Says:
A better way is to use AIM (through Meebo) to send SMS by adding the number as a contact. Just enter +1 and the number as a contact. You also be able to get replies.
Posted on July 01, 2008
Nathan Says:
So, what happens when someone sends you a text message? I’m not talking about when people reply to your text/email messages ... I’m talking about someone opening up their phone and txting you to your number. What happens then? Do you get charged?
Posted on July 02, 2008
Guy Says:
I got a better idea:
d twitterusername Your message here.
Posted on July 03, 2008
Jace Says:
Try jott.com, too. I love jott!
You basically tie your phone number to your email and can call in TXT messages to others or emails or reminders or group emails.... It’s pretty cool.
Posted on July 04, 2008
mralanyoung Says:
i’ve had some experience where I used the carrier email to send text messages () and SOMETIMES, not all the time, when they reply, it wouldn’t go through… any comments on this?
Posted on July 08, 2008
Tammy Says:
Hi everyone u ok
Posted on September 15, 2008
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TC Says:
From their privacy policy:
“Teleflip may sell, for its own account, or otherwise release, your personal information to related third parties (such as our partners, bankers and advertisers) in order for them to notify you of products and/or services that may be of interest to you, or for any other lawful purpose;”
No thanks!
Posted on July 01, 2008