I know most of the free text messaging apps don't work on Speakout, although I did find one that works, which starts with a t and ends with an s and is available in the App store. Sometimes it's buggy but it's better than nothing!

Does anyone know of any others? I tried another one called PingChat which is GREAT, but only works over wi-fi, sadly.

I'd just like a backup program in case my current one ever stops working over GPRS/data.

andreww said:

Prag said:

I did find one that works, which starts with a t and ends with an s and is available in the App store.

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with over a hundred thousand apps, that really narrows it down. Any reason you cant post the app name?

Sorry, I was just concerned that by naming it in full, it'd be incredibly easy for the SpeakOut people (who apparently do view this forum) to go and block it. I rely heavily on the app to communicate with an American friend daily. I'll PM you the name of the app. It works on Android and iOS.

I also assume that using a Terminal app to SSH into a Unix/BSD/Linux shell account and using the old Unix command "TALK username" might work, but haven't tried it myself. It would certainly be low bandwidth though.

springbok said:

care to pm me the name of the app too? please.

Done. I also found out from Andreww that there's one more app that will work, though haven't tried it myself. I mentioned it in the PM.

The problem with the first one I was referring to is it doesn't notify you when a new text rolls in. Other than that, it's worked fine for me. Since I just use the free text messaging app for non time sensitive chats, I manually check once an hour in case a new one rolled in, and that's worked fine for my purposes. When I'm in the midst of a texting conversation I hit the refresh button regularly. My SpeakOut and formerly Petro Canada Mobility accounts would drain realllllly fast were it not for these apps.

Perhaps someday I'll spring for the $10/month texting package but for now there's no need as the rare/few times someone does send me a time sensitive text they know to do it the regular way.

If you know what carrier the person you are texting you could go to rogers wireless or bell.ca and text from the webpage.

http://txt.bell.ca/bell/en/

http://websms.rogers.page.ca/2way/

For cheapos like us