Sending/Receiving SMS TEXT Overseas?
 

I am going to the UK for two weeks. I am buying an unlocked phone for use when I am there. However I have a question regarding my home cell phone. Is there a way I can receive and send texts that are sent to my regular (sprint cdma phone) Is there some sort of workaround?

Robert

Well, you could enable google voice, get a google voice number then enable your sprint device on google voice (there is a special integration that only sprint has with google voice) and I THINK that will enable you to receive calls at the google voice number AND get the texts with the google voice app on iphone or android.

Maybe checkout the sprintusers.com forums for more details.

Or sign up for a new google voice account, and port your Sprint number over to it (if it's important to not have to tell your senders the new number). Then make sure the new unlocked phone is an Android phone. It should come with a gtalk app already installed, which will receive your SMS messages.

Alternatively, I know a Sprint user who went to Europe, and rented a world phone before leaving. Sprint charged him $90 for the world phone for a month, so that he could continue placing calls and receiving calls as if he were in the states. Presumably SMS would also work under that scheme.

Look into (WhatsApp) I think it is SMS over WiFi.

http://www.whatsapp.com

great
 

whatsapp is a great app for cross services, BBM, sms, text, chat, but unfortunately I don't think one can use it to get messages from a dedicated phone number.

If your US phone is Android and you are willing to leave it plugged in on your dresser back in the US, there are programs like:

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_a...rder_hikh.html

that will forward your SMS messages to another number such as a Google Voice number. Get an Android phone for the UK, buy a data package, and use Google Voice to text the US.

Truphone offers a US phone number with a SIM that works relatively inexpensively in the UK. You could use that as well. Whatsapp is great, but it is like BBM and doesn't use text messages. If you are just texting a girl friend or a parent with a smart phone, that would be fine, but it wouldn't work for your entire social circle.

I use both google voice and whatsapp. Both work great.
With google voice, you can send sms from a browser or an android app. You do need a data connection, and you will get a new number (unless you port the one over)