Levi Wallach wrote: > Sprint recently offered unlimited SMS messages for free for SERO > accounts and I was able to get this added to all of my family's > phones. Now I need to know need to know: > > a) what to use this for: I've changed my Google Calendar > notifications to use SMS as opposed to email, but other than that I'm > not sure what to use it for. Most of my friends are my age (38) or > older, and so are not using SMS like the yunguns, as far as I know. > Any other uses for it that people know?
I use it extensively for AOL IM forwarding. This allows me to be reached via IM at any time without running an IM client on my treo (which would eat the batteries). For short conversations AOL's IM forwarding lets you respond back via SMS; if I need to have a longer chat or if I need to initiate a chat instead. And my wife now loves being able to ask me questions via SMS when I can't answer the phone, such as during meetings and such. And even as an SMS user, I can still spell :-) BTW - are you all aware that the treo has some built in auto-substitutions that make it easier to type? Check out this message from last year if you are interested... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/treo/message/16366 Sam
