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Omicron - 12 Nov 2006 05:38 GMT

Can you tell me what features I'd need to have with my Verizon cell
phone account in order to send email f rom my phone? Can you tell me
what steps I would need to set this up?
Any idea what it might cost (per email??)
Thank you.

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Frankster - 12 Nov 2006 13:27 GMT

Go to: https://www.vtext.com/customer_site/jsp/register.jsp and sign up for
free.

Afterward...

You can send/receive basic email without any "extra" features. The normal
SMS text message function can be used to send/receive email. To send email
from your phone, instead of a phone number, just type in an email address.
To receive an email on your VZW phone via the text message interface,
instruct the sender to email to you at <10digitcellnumber>@vtext.com. You'll
get it on your phone.

The above method uses built-in SMS technology and is restricted to the SMS
160 character limit. If you want longer (real) email, then you would need to
subscribe to the VZW Mobil Web service (around $7.00/mo). This way you can
access almost any webased email. In this case you would be using the web
interface to send/receive messges. Using your phone as input to the website.

-Frank

> Can you tell me what features I'd need to have with my Verizon cell
> phone account in order to send email f rom my phone? Can you tell me
> what steps I would need to set this up?
> Any idea what it might cost (per email??)
> Thank you.

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Dean - 12 Nov 2006 16:12 GMT

Frank,

Sending and receiving e-mails would cost the same as a text message, right?
(10c each sent/rcvd)

I believe the OP asked about cost too.

Dean

> Go to: https://www.vtext.com/customer_site/jsp/register.jsp and sign up
> for free.
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>> Any idea what it might cost (per email??)
>> Thank you.

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Frankster - 12 Nov 2006 16:18 GMT

Yessir, it would. Whatever your text plan is. 250/500/1000 or pay as you go.

-Frank

> Frank,
>
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>>> Any idea what it might cost (per email??)
>>> Thank you.

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info99@ptd.net - 12 Nov 2006 17:48 GMT

Thanks Frankster! (and Dean, as well).
I have Txt Messaging as-you-go, so I gather the 10-cents a shot applies
to me.
You're going to laugh, but I sent my first-ever text message the other
day (to get a Gmail account)!
Since I can already send Txt Messages, do I *still* need to go to your
referenced website and sign up?
Another question if I may:
This phone allows the taking of pictures, so if I take a picture of my
grandson, how would I go about emailing that photo to my friends? It
seems that this approach would fall under your "real" email concept, so
I'm assuming I'd need the full blown web access option (which the guy
who sold me this phone, LG vx8300, said would cost me an extra $5.00
per month. Is this correct?

What about just sending a picture from my phone to another
picture-phone of a friend?

Thanks for your help and thanks to all the other fine folks who have
responded.
Omicron

> Go to: https://www.vtext.com/customer_site/jsp/register.jsp and sign up for
> free.
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> > Any idea what it might cost (per email??)
> > Thank you.

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Frankster - 12 Nov 2006 18:15 GMT

> Thanks Frankster! (and Dean, as well).

You bet. This whole thing is much simpler than most folks realize.

> I have Txt Messaging as-you-go, so I gather the 10-cents a shot
> applies to me.

Yep.

> Since I can already send Txt Messages, do I *still* need to go to your
> referenced website and sign up?

Well, you can send email without signing up. No problem. However, in order
to receive email (like a reply!) you have to have an email account
associated with your <10digitcellnumber> at vtext.com. That is why you would
want to go to vtext.com and sign up to get that account. It is free.

> Another question if I may:
> This phone allows the taking of pictures, so if I take a picture of my
> grandson, how would I go about emailing that photo to my friends?

Yes, you should be able to send this the same way. You will be billed at the
pic message rate rather than the text message rate. However, to receive
pictures that way you'll want to sign up at:
https://www.vzwpix.com/auth/reg.do. Again, free.

> seems that this approach would fall under your "real" email concept

Not really, since, using actual on-line email, you would have to figure a
way to "attach" the picture to your email account while on-line. I don't
think most phones have the ability to do that, other than possibly the PDA
phones with a data plan.

> What about just sending a picture from my phone to another
> picture-phone of a friend?

Yep, you can do that via straight SMS, at the picture rate. Don't need
email.

-Frank

> Thanks for your help and thanks to all the other fine folks who have
> responded.
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>> > Any idea what it might cost (per email??)
>> > Thank you.

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Frankster - 12 Nov 2006 18:19 GMT

Slight correction...

Change: "Well, you can send email without signing up"

To: "Well, [I THINK] you can send email without signing up"

Try it! :)

-Frank

>> Thanks Frankster! (and Dean, as well).
>
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>>> > Any idea what it might cost (per email??)
>>> > Thank you.

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