SMS doesn't support subject. MMS does but the iPhone doesn't support it.
for the majority of the time, you're just sending quick messages anyway... subject is irrelevant. the way Apple threads by recipient is good enough.
Text Messaging Is Horrible!
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for the majority of the time, you're just sending quick messages anyway... subject is irrelevant. the way Apple threads by recipient is good enough.
This might be handy, but like a few others have stated, it's not something that you use on a regular basis, most people that is. I probably have sent around 3 mass emails and most of the time when meeting for dinner or whatever a lot of people are together, so one or two calls accomplishes this goal easily.
And like a few OTHERS have stated, it IS something we use on a regular basis - a neccessity for us! I use that feature two or more times a week for my businesss and personal. I am seriously thinking I need to pick up a second cheap phone just to do texting, and there's something wrong with that.
I stand corrected. My old Razr allowed a subject but I could not send pictures in my messages, so I assumed that was part of SMS. It was probably a limitation in my account.
They're grouped, not threaded. A thread by definition denotes a topic of discussion.
I send 500-1000 per month and there's about a dozen people who get the bulk of 'em. I routinely clean them once there's about 30-40 messages (usually covering several different threads) lumped together under someone's name, kinda annoying.
Multiple SMS Messages
As you suggested, I added the SMS email address of the handful of people I usually send messages to (at the same time).
But then I went ahead and created myself a new free Gmail account. I updated the forwarding setting on this account so that every message sent to this account will automatically get forwarded to my number@txt.att.net sms email address.
Then I added this email account to my iPhone.
So now, if I want to text message multiple people, I just create an email (from the new account) and add as many contacts as I want (sms or regular emails). And because of the forwarding feature on the account, when they reply, whether from their phone or email address, the reply will be sent to me as a text message rather than an email message.
Please note that I could have also used Yahoo! Email to do this, but I chose GMail because they don't append an ad at the bottom of every email like Yahoo! does. So the text message goes through cleaner and shorter.
I took this idea one step further in order to improve on it just a bit....
As you suggested, I added the SMS email address of the handful of people I usually send messages to (at the same time).
But then I went ahead and created myself a new free Gmail account. I updated the forwarding setting on this account so that every message sent to this account will automatically get forwarded to my number@txt.att.net sms email address.
Then I added this email account to my iPhone.
So now, if I want to text message multiple people, I just create an email (from the new account) and add as many contacts as I want (sms or regular emails). And because of the forwarding feature on the account, when they reply, whether from their phone or email address, the reply will be sent to me as a text message rather than an email message.
Please note that I could have also used Yahoo! Email to do this, but I chose GMail because they don't append an ad at the bottom of every email like Yahoo! does. So the text message goes through cleaner and shorter.
mass texts
I thought the same thing. We should be able make folders of certain people and text them all at once. If your promoting for a party you wanna text all the partiers. im surprised APPLE didn't see that through.
I thought the same thing. We should be able make folders of certain people and text them all at once. If your promoting for a party you wanna text all the partiers. im surprised APPLE didn't see that through.
Well this is ironic. I'm about to do some contract work for an upstart that acts as an intermediary providing a potential solution, at least for people where this is for a businesss/marketing function - www.globaltelmedia.com. The CTO confirmed they are getting involved in the club promotion businesss with some of the big Vegas venues. They provide interactive SMS and data management that can be accessed through the web on a normal PC.
And not to be totally spamalicious, there appear to be other alternatives that are more in the generic social networking domain - Dogdgeball, Twitter, 3Jam, UPOC, and MS Slam.
And not to be totally spamalicious, there appear to be other alternatives that are more in the generic social networking domain - Dogdgeball, Twitter, 3Jam, UPOC, and MS Slam.
One more improvement (in my mind, at least) to this is to use teleflip.com. No, I don't work for them, but it does make it a little easier than figuring out what carriers all your friends have.
Instead of putting 5555555555@txt.att.net for the address (this only works for AT&T subscribers), you can use 5555555555@teleflip.com and it automatically works for all the carriers.
The only downside is that it places a small link to teleflip.com on the end of all messages.
It's a small price to pay for me because the service is free.
I don't know anything about this service but it sounds like it might help.
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/31/free-sms-text-messaging-from-your-web-browser-also-sends-to-your-mobile-phone-does-mass-messaging-replies.html
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/31/free-sms-text-messaging-from-your-web-browser-also-sends-to-your-mobile-phone-does-mass-messaging-replies.html
Ok, I got what you said about texting multiple people at once. It is really simple although I didn't know how to do it until I read your post. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Me being a photographer, I do have to send out multiple texts right now, especially since my e-mail is being worked on.
My question is: How do I pass along a text message that someone sends me to more than one person or one person for that fact?
Thank you!
Heather
I don't understand what people are saying here about not being about to text to more than one person, because I can.
They are talking about being able to select a group that is set up and iPhone will auto load the "To" field with their names rather than opening up the group button and have to select each person manually on the list.
A feature is wanted to be able to make a group and have iPhone load all the names automatically not make you do it manually.
You would also have to be able to pick a mobile # when creating the group for a person because you may have multiple #'s for people (home, work, mobile). Or have it so iPhone only sends a text to mobile #'s.
Whoever makes iSMS get working on this please
