Anything 100% free & good for SMS via apps for Desktop PC & Android too ??
Dranon2:
I use GV texting all the time! From my phone with GV app and from the desktop. It works great. Its ffree, the app is free ( I use iphone) There is also a third party app called GV mobile+ which yopu can use with multiple GV numbers phone and text! I think it actually works better than the GV app and you have the benfit of using mutiple GV numbers if you need!
vtsnaab:
Thanks for this info:
Quote from: Dranon2 on February 15, 2015, 12:38:50 pm
I use GV texting all the time! From my phone with GV app and from the desktop. It works great. Its ffree, the app is free ( I use iphone) There is also a third party app called GV mobile+ which yopu can use with multiple GV numbers phone and text! I think it actually works better than the GV app and you have the benfit of using mutiple GV numbers if you need!
I must confess that I am a bit confused by the above=>
Are you using some PC/desktop program or your browser for this, please ??
I have absolutely no desire to ever use an iphone or an i-anything, and my desktop usage is all PC-based as well - and so my queries regard only the PC desktop usage and/or Android via Wifi only.
Thanks.
corporate_gadfly:
Quote from: vtsnaab on February 16, 2015, 12:11:41 pm
I must confess that I am a bit confused by the above=>
Are you using some PC/desktop program or your browser for this, please ??
I have absolutely no desire to ever use an iphone or an i-anything, and my desktop usage is all PC-based as well - and so my queries regard only the PC desktop usage and/or Android via Wifi only.
Thanks.
Let's try one more time.
Disclaimer: These are not my screenshots. I used Google to search for these images. Hopefully they get the point across.
Look Ma! No iPhone. Here's a screenshot of Android using Hangouts to SMS to a regular phone number:
Here is a screenshot of the Chrome Hangouts Extension being used to send SMS on a PC (I use it on Mac OS X instead):
So, to summarize, using Android and Wifi, you are able to use Hangouts app to send SMS. And using, PC/Chrome/Hangouts Extension, you can send SMS.
Problem solved (I think).
vtsnaab:
Wow.
Methinks I've asked too much with too many words...or sumpin...?
I am hoping after hope for a desktop PC SMS app - not meaning the sort of thing used in win8 - but a real program of some sort that is not a browser, and not browser-based.
If it also has a 'matching' Android app - so much the better, but not imperative.
My list of 'nots':
- I do not use any browser other than Firefox and the GV pages jack up its RAM usage hugely.
- I do not use any Chrome/Chromium/IE based browser, at all so things for those are strictly out for me.
- I prefer not to use Hangouts; and instead prefer to just use GV as it is.
- I have zero interest in anything named with an 'i' in front of it or an Apple symbol on it anymore.
I -do- have a cheap, old version Android phone and an older PC & I am in no hurry to 'upgrade' anything as most newer stuff simply does not suit me at all (Yes - I am an old guy !!).
No matter how many times it may be suggested to use things that I do not have or choose to use...
I will remain without them as I wish to add functionality to what I already have and have chosen to use rather than changing to newer stuff - and I mean no offense by these things - these are just my personal choices.
The mystery to me is that no matter how many substitute-for-SMS & SMS-like apps have appeared for Android - there is almost nothing which enables the independent use of SMS via Desktop PC.
(I have detailed some of what little for this I've been able to find in prior replies here...)
Seems to me that this should be a very populated idea, given how many folks use PCs who also use SMS - but it just is not that way a'tall.
Thanks for the replies & suggestions folks.
corporate_gadfly:
Quote from: vtsnaab on February 16, 2015, 04:33:40 pm
- I do not use any browser other than Firefox and the GV pages jack up its RAM usage hugely.
Are you perhaps okay with trying out a firefox plugin instead? Maybe it will have better memory usage. I just tried it out and it does indeed send SMS for free using GV.
Interface looks roughly like this:
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