Re: off topic - a text message question (SMS)

<quote who="Paul Nevai">
> Dear Friends, especially the ones in Europe:
>
>
> In the US, it looks like, one can routinely SMS to e-mail addresses too
> not just to cell phone numbers.

hmm, never heard of that one... (I use Superpager to do that, fwiw)

not in Oz

> So you can imagine my shock when my Centro with a European SIM card
> declared that "phone numbers" such as [email protected] were invalid and didn't
> even try to send the SMS. So the SIM card must have a built-in protection
> against using non-pure-digit addresses.
>
> Is this really so? Is SMS-ing to e-mail addresses in Europe a no-no?

I've noticed Palm's SMS app diaplys email addreses, but, won't process them
(on TX, on T3, it only shows mobiles)


I can do it on the mobile, BUT, AFAIK, it then turns SMS into MMS.



-- 
Voytek



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