Thanx, Rob

My phone acknowledges the computer to text Text'em message, but because Rogers has proprietary software installed that wants to route through their services it says I need to sign up to Rogers retrieve it. (I'm not savvy enough to know if there's a way to disable this )

I've had no problems sending emails to other cell phones and you can choose to have the replies go to the Text'em site or to another pre-determined email address.

I am one of those dinosaurs that has never texted anyone. I want my son to be able to text something to my gmail account and ultimately I would like to be able to use gmail or msn to be able to 'text' him. I'm not sure if that is possible in canada. I understand that with google talk in the states you can do this.

Does anyone know how to initiate a text to a Canadian SO phone from a computer?

How do I send a text message to an e-mail address on my Speakout GSM phone ?

send the message to this number: 0000000000 (that is 10 0's)

Write the text message in the following format:

address@domain.com Here is the message

(in other words, first the email address, and then a space, and then the message)

I can't seem to make things happen...

So what should I do? Will this incur any additional costs? Anyone here have any information on this? Thanks.

Peter said:

Great tip. I just tried it out and it worked for me too.

The e-mail subject ended up being: "Rogers Wireless Message / Message de Rogers Sans-fil" and the "From" address was 6045555555@pcs.rogers.com

(replace 6045555555 with the sender's 10-digit number)

Replying back to [10digitnumber]@pcs.rogers.com didn't work, but this was expected since e-mail to text is usually a paid service (and currently unavailable from 7-Eleven)...

I too was charged 10 cents. If a few more people confirm this I'll add it to the FAQ

I tried this today and it did not work. I am a bit confused Peter
I have new Nokia 1208 and when I want to sent a message I go Create message I type my gmail address the space and I type a message. Then I press Sent and I am asked for Phone Number. Do I type 10 -0's or what number? Because I tried this today and I got Error message. My area code is 204 Manitoba. Can you help I am new in this.
Thanx Mike

I just tried it again with 10 - 0's to MTS address and it worked. Maybe gmail was down or who knows.

eg. 778YOURNUMBER@pcs.rogers.com

Will I receive an SMS?

Rogers has an SMS service on its SIM Cards that is separate from the text messaging on the phone.

I've used it to send and receive SMS messages (at no extra charge) to and from my Rogers Internet Stick which has no voice plan attached to it. The "stick" uses a SIM card, and I am assigned a Rogers phone number which is stored in the SIM card in the "stick" for a computer to connect to the internet. To Acess the SMS function, you have to go to the applet that connects the "stick" to the Internet on your computer.

I'm wondering if the SO SIM has a similar function buried deep in its secrets.
I'll play around a bit to see if I can figure that out.

I have a Samsung Jack locked to Rogers which works perfectly as a voice and text phone with the SO SIM. It browses and does all things data with the SIM from the Rogers Internet Stick. The only hassle is changing the SIM cards depending on what I want to use the phone for.

If I try to browse with the SO SIM in the phone, it just tells me that the service is not available -- I think it may charge for a text message to tell me that -- I'm going to try it with balance checks before and after testing.

However, I have to be very careful that I don't accidentally make phone calls with the Rogers SIM in place because the guy at the phone store said it would work with a very nasty surprise on my next bill.

...ron...

Sunyjim said:

i never had rogers. just bought a speakout
and it worked for me. received couldn't reply. but could send to sms with http://freesms.1888usa.com/sms.....global.htm so i sorta got some two way to a computer user who knows how it works

which SMS service did you select to successfully text to SpeakOut? There seems to be a lot of providers at this site, and none of them have SpeakOut listed as an option (and Fido/Rogers don't seem to work). thanks

Still good to have.