SMS Touch,
a $5 app available through the App Store, displays a landscape keyboard
and works with your contacts list to send SMS messages. The messaging
is free because instead of sending an SMS, the app e-mails the message
through an SMS gateway,
which eventually reaches the recipient’s phone in the form of a text.
True, you can already do this manually over e-mail, but that would
require memorizing the phone numbers. (Who does that anymore?)
I
downloaded the app and texted a few friends with it. It took a few
seconds longer to send a message than normal texting would, but that’s
not a big deal. Here’s what I didn’t like: When my friends received the
text, it didn’t show up coming from my name. Instead the messages said,
"From: 11000101001," which makes texting a bit more impersonal than it
already is. I can’t see this replacing SMS messaging entirely for
iPhone owners, but it’s nice to have as a back-up option in case one
month you feel you’ve exceeded your limit.
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