Pocket sized: Take your office on your phone

Ever been out and realize you forgot to email an important client? Ever had a great idea for an instructable while you were walking down the street, but you didn't have any paper? Ever wish you could receive your email on you phone? You can do all that and more, with FREE services, and you don't even need a fancy phone. These all work on any phone that can text message and place calls. These were all done on my Nokia 1600, which is only a $15 phone! These are by no means fancy phones, but they are enough for us.

Step 1 Send email

Using a free service called Teleflip we can send emails from text messages for free!

All you need to do is
1-Compose a new text message
2-put the email address, the a space, then your message
3-send to 33715

An example would look like...

[e-mail] Hi, linux, have you heard of teleflip? Its a free service that lets you send emails from your phone!

It should look something like that.
You may be charged by your phone company for text messages.

For more details look here

Comments

[Pukeysmom]

Very good stuff here, especially when my work phone doesn't allow "regular" web access! Thanks much!

[lucianoabcd]

Do you think this will work everywhere? It seems to me like it's country-specific... I'll try anyway.

[LinuxH4x0r]

This works in the US, but most countries have similar services. Where are you from?

[lucianoabcd]

I tried... they didn't work... The numbers and service availability are for sure country-specific. I'll take into account when I travel to the USA anyway :)

[LinuxH4x0r]

No, I meant they have the same thing with different numbers. Oh well, too bad

[Lance Mt.]

Anyone know optus's AUS account? i think its   [e-mail] but no go.

[lucianoabcd]

Argentina... I don't think they are already here, but will try.

[mazeka.14]

Virgin Mobile sucks

[LinuxH4x0r]

so do you. Why is that relevant here?

[mazeka.14]

Virgin Mobile sucks because it has a sin to win contest with prize money of $666 and a site for strip movies for every five strips they donate one piece of clothing to third world countries P.S I consider "you suck" a compliment. P.P.S I like your instructables.

[mazeka.14]

thanks for the compliment but virgin mobile has a sin to win contest and a web site that they say "strip, post the movie here every 5 vids we will donate 1 piece of clothing to Africa PS I Like your Instructables. and who cares if its relevant

[Lance Mt.]

 We care, and its highly irrelevant.

[taylor100593]

Very Nice Instructables keep it up sireousky

[LinuxH4x0r]

Thanks!

[The Insomniac]

Wait. So its basically a proxy that converts a text message into an email? Couldnt it be intercepted? You could add on to this by telling about gmail mobile, though it doesnt work on certain phones. Cool instructable though, will definetely use it when i get my phone in about a month.

[LinuxH4x0r]

This works on all phones. Thanks!

[wokwithme]

Please invite me. Pretty Pleez!!

[LinuxH4x0r]

to grand central? pm me with your email address

[GorillazMiko]

Haha, the blurred out Hello. I saw that in that one Instructable... Nice job. +1 rating and vote. ;-)

[CameronSS]

Why did you blur out the message on Step 2? I don't think anyone's going to steal your identity from the message Hello... ;-)

[LinuxH4x0r]

I stole that image from a previous instructable... Any ideas about improving this, or experiences with these services?

[CameronSS]

I have no cellphone, and therefore no experience.

[LinuxH4x0r]

Jott, grand central and Goog411 all work on landlines

[theRIAA]

cool

[LinuxH4x0r]

Thanks! vote if you like it