Hi
I have a PDA2K with a contract. I have some free minutes talk and free messages.
What I would like is a software that I could have control and know how many minutes and messages I have spent and have free.
Can anyone suggest any way or software to do this?
A while back ago, I came on here to introduce a new site called Peekamo.com. It is a mobile social network that allows free text messaging.
Up until now, only Canadians got the 100% benefit from peekamo because US users still get charged for incoming text. Therefore we only solved half the problem for our US friends.
I am the lead developer and co-founder of Peekamo and have recently been working on a WM6 version that allows you to use data (wifi, cellular, activesync or bluetooth) to send and receive text messages for absolutely free.
If anyone is interested in helping us beta text this new application please message me or contact us direct by gonig to peekamo.com and using the contact us email.
Peekamo derives it's revenue by placing an ad up to 30 characters at the bottom of each message. However for the period of the beta test mobile app users will receive no advertising as a bonus incentive when receiving messages using the Peekamo mobile client.
A little tech background on the app and what are it's features:
Send/Receive text messages
Update your status message
Search for friends and groups
Multi-recipient texting
Peekamo's what's peekin' (what's going on with your friends feature)
Upload photos from your camera
Upload video from your camera
Look up profiles
Edit your profile
and more as we move forward.
The ultimate goal is to do everything that you can do on Peekamo.com, but on your mobile.
Thank you and hope to capture a few people's interest.
Al Sajoo
Peekamo.com
Not to rain on your parade, but all of the US carriers offer unlimited text messaging these days. Cingular just added it, replacing the 3000-per month plan with unlimited. Unlimited messaging is a LOT cheaper than unlimited data, as well..
jmat said:
Not to rain on your parade, but all of the US carriers offer unlimited text messaging these days. Cingular just added it, replacing the 3000-per month plan with unlimited. Unlimited messaging is a LOT cheaper than unlimited data, as well..
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Can you send text over your wifi connection with Cingular or any other US carrier? You will be able to with Peekamo. Unlimited data plan on Cingular costs 19.99, what would you rather have? Unlimited data or a unlimited text messaging plan?
Peekamo is also going world wide. Does your unlimited plan let you text your friends around the world for free? You unlimited texting plan also does not cover texting to Canada or when roaming.
here is cingular's unlimited texting faq.
http://www.cingular.com/learn/messa...faq-multimedia-messaging.jsp#mobile-to-mobile
and here is t-mobile's text messaging page.
http://t-mobile.com/shop/addons/ser...ng&oscid=4CD51BA7-B5AF-4AB2-85E0-50EC0AF141F9
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Sorry everyone,
We've had a little bit of a set back and had to re-optimize data transfer for gprs and 3g connections, primary testing today confirms that we have achieved our target and we are now reading the application for it's release.
The new release date for the Peekamo Mobile Client is Friday. For those of you who have responded already, you will receive instructions and a cab file install to the email you have provided. If you have not created your Peekamo account yet, I suggest you do so right away and familiarize yourself with the service.
We have limited space available now for the first round of beta testing so if you're interested, please reply to us quickly as we expect to run out available spots by tomorrow.
Once again, thanks to everyone who has shown some interest and is willing to help out.
Cheers.
killer idea if you were in australia id certainly use this
bleeding_edge said:
killer idea if you were in australia id certainly use this
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We will be shortly, we're just finalizing our deal with our int'l providers, and we should be up and running in several major countries outside of North America within the next few weeks.
The countries include:
Australia
Germany
UK
France
Italy
India
Malaysia
Philippines
Spain
Iran
Ofcourse, we will be adding countries as we move forward.
Hey guys, I was wondering if theres a black list feature in Kavana 6.1?
I remember playing with my phone and i found that option, but iuno where it was.
also, by blacklist i mean to block ppl from calling me.
Also... Im having a problem with MMS, for some reason some ppl can send me pictures and some cant. I already did the Cnnection Setup, but... for some reason i have to friends that can't send me pictures but my brother can.
I know its not my friends phones becuz they send pics to eachother
also, my brohter is on my family plan
theyre on ATT and im on T-Mobile
thanks in advance!
kingtaco11 said:
Hey guys, I was wondering if theres a black list feature in Kavana 6.1?
I remember playing with my phone and i found that option, but iuno where it was.
also, by blacklist i mean to block ppl from calling me.
Also... Im having a problem with MMS, for some reason some ppl can send me pictures and some cant. I already did the Cnnection Setup, but... for some reason i have to friends that can't send me pictures but my brother can.
I know its not my friends phones becuz they send pics to eachother
also, my brohter is on my family plan
theyre on ATT and im on T-Mobile
thanks in advance!
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blacklist - youmail.com its free, funny as hell and lets you do all that stuff. or i believe there are some third party apps available.
mms - i got no idea man.
shoot me a pm...i have some software you can try for the call screening
Is there any free texting app for wp7?
Im coming from iPhone, so i was pretty much used to apps like TextFree or Text now.
Is there anything similar yet in Wp7? or any app on the way?
Thanks,
Abhinay
I have a question about a texting app for WP7. I don't have a plan with SMS messaging and I am wondering if there exists a free app on the market that has the ability to text a phone through internet without using the SMS feature. I know that both Android and iOS have an app of the sort.
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Look for an app called "Text Me". There's a free version & a paid version. The free version doesn't do attachments, but it works really well.
Everyone you wanna "text" has to have Text Me & it's available for iphones as well.
@ycavan
thnx dude.. cant believe i missed it.. lol.. though buggy, it does the work..
thnx
Not really a free text app then is it... if everyone has to have the application it's basically the same as the Facebook messages!
Be careful with those free text apps though - it's quite common for the receiver to be charged for the messages. I know in the US they get charged anyway (wtf) but elsewhere it's different.
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Not really a free text app then is it... if everyone has to have the application it's basically the same as the Facebook messages!
Be careful with those free text apps though - it's quite common for the receiver to be charged for the messages. I know in the US they get charged anyway (wtf) but elsewhere it's different.
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I don't understand why people don't just email each other... it all uses data anyway...
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I don't understand why people don't just email each other... it all uses data anyway...
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Or even call! Sometimes it's cheaper - depends if there's a connection charge on your tariff. There wasn't on my old network, and a minute's worth of call was cheaper than a SMS so... no brainer.
does the rest of the world not have unlimited text messaging? Or are y'all just too cheap?
What about google voice?
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does the rest of the world not have unlimited text messaging?
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Yeh, we do, but I don't have enough friends to justify the unlimited text package
I think in a perfect world - if everyone was an XDA nerd - we'd all email each other. Majority of my friends still don't have smartphones, though, and those that do still prefer to text. My email's set to manual check anyway because push is stressful (sometimes I like forgetting about work and who I have to pay on ebay)
What's annoying, though, is that I read somewhere that text messages are the most marked up product of all time, and yet nobody seems bothered by this.
Its because no alternative has a monopoly on it. If 70% of smartphone users used whatsapp sms would be cheaper cause most people would start cancelling their sms packages.
Im and free texting apps are fragmented, so most people have to fall back to sms, anyways.
Also, some of those apps arw battery-aggressive (on OSes that multitask).
That is why lots of BB users stay with RIM for BBM.
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Tiny text is kinda similar to BBM...i use that to talk to my friends that have a wp7
Bbm preinstalled. Getting people to all install and use these apps is very difficult.
The bigger your contact list, it gets exponentially more difficult - to the point where it isn't worth it.
Was like that for me and whatsapp. No one else wants to install/buy it, so why bother keeping it installes myself?
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My app called "Free Texting" just got approved today. Go check it out
Use Google Voice. GoVoice is a great app for utilizing Google Voice for texting, voicemails, and outgoing calls. I haven't paid for SMS on my cell plan for years and I use texting through GoVoice all day. The $2.99 paid version supports immediate Push notifications too. I think the free one might support Push in the future, but $2.99 is not a bad investment in the interim... considering that the cheapest SMS plan on any cell carrier is like $5 a month and that's not even for unlimited.
pjbcool100 said:
My app called "Free Texting" just got approved today. Go check it out
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No trial or ad-supported version?
thesecondsfade said:
Use Google Voice. GoVoice is a great app for utilizing Google Voice for texting, voicemails, and outgoing calls. I haven't paid for SMS on my cell plan for years and I use texting through GoVoice all day. The $2.99 paid version supports immediate Push notifications too. I think the free one might support Push in the future, but $2.99 is not a bad investment in the interim... considering that the cheapest SMS plan on any cell carrier is like $5 a month and that's not even for unlimited.
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Does this only work in the us? I have never heard anybody here using it.
Is there any apps that I can use to send messages to my brothers blackberry in dubai for free. It costs me 20p a text on virgin.
Any suggestions appreciated thanks
Whatsapp, you both need the app and a data connection. I think for now it's still free (at least on android) but after a year it's like 3 dollar per year.
If you download the app it asks for sms permissions but that is only to verify your phone number, the actual messaging will take place over data connection.
Thanks just installed that and have been sending pictures and chatting for free.
I would pay 3$ or whatever well worth it