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how can i send a text message to a friend who has a sprint phone?

lil_wayne_1029

Feb 27, 2004, 7:42 PM
my friend has a sprint phone and everytime i try to send her a text she says she receives a message with a whole bunch of numbers. is there a way to send my friend sprint even though i have a cingular phone?
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cuchanu

Feb 27, 2004, 9:02 PM
she needs to read the directions for her phone and she'll be able to figure it out. She is probably getting a notification to check her text messages. on my phone you just hit the 'go' softkey and you'll go to the text message. Sprint shortmail sucks tho so she probably wont text you back
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RSWIZARDS

Mar 2, 2004, 6:46 PM
sprint has been using true text messaging for a month now. she needs to suscribe to sms service
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wldthng842

Mar 3, 2004, 11:15 AM
long story short, sprint uses two different types of text messages. Based on what you are telling me, she has an older vision or wireless web phone, not a new sms capable phone. In order to look at the messages she must go to the link that was included in the message. All phones are different from the other. There should either be a button that says go when she is viewing the message, or she might have to hit the menu key and then select go. This will launch the web, so she will need to subscribe to it, or she will be charged. Other than the new sms phones this is the only way for you to send her a message to her phone and have her be able to reply. There are ways to send messages directly to the phone but she wouldn't be able to repl...
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lil_wayne_1029

Mar 4, 2004, 1:47 PM
My friend has a newer type phone she purchased it at radioshack. she said it a cam phone she got so i know the phone is not an older phone. If i send her a text she dosent always receive them i think i sent her like 10 text and shes only gotten less than half. she said when she got the phone it came with free text messaging and free mms messaging for three months. i tried to send a text to her 10 ten digit cell phone number that didnt work, i also tried tos end her messages through her sprint mobile email address and she hasnt gotten that many of those either. i dunno how i can send my friend text messages. Anyone have any ideas?
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ruf-jason

Mar 4, 2004, 2:18 PM
There's only one camera phone that we sell at RadioShack that is sms capeable and that's the Sanyo VM4500 (blue ready-link phone for 380.00 B4 rebates), the other two phones we have w/ sms is the Nokia and the VI660. If she doesn't have that phone the only way to send a text message to use PCS short mail. BTW Vision is free for the first 2 months, not three and it includes 100 txt messages per mo. provided you have a sms phone.

hth,
Jason
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lil_wayne_1029

Mar 4, 2004, 2:29 PM
My friend has the sanyo 8100. its a cam phone so i know its sms and mms capable. 😈 but all that said i still cant send her a text messgae. she can send me mms messages? but i dont have a mms capable phone soo i have to forward those to my email adress.
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ricotatl

Mar 4, 2004, 3:10 PM
I have 3 vm4500 and 1 8100, my buddy and i text each other all the time, me using my 4500 and him with his 8100, never had a problem. 😁
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wldthng842

Mar 23, 2004, 11:18 AM
Sprint doesn't use MMS so none of their phones have it. The 8100 uses shortmail to send text messages! It is not sms capable.

She will have to get on the web to read them. When you send here a txt it will come into her phone and just say she has a new shortmail message. She will have to hit the go button to follow the link provided in the message. that link will launch the web and take her to her shortmail inbox where it will display the last 10 or so messages. she can click on the one she wants to view the entire thing and reply back. She can recieve messages from any carrier.
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stevelvl

Mar 23, 2004, 11:53 AM
actually sprint does not have sms text messageing all of there new phones have it the 4500, 7300, treo 600 the nokia, thetoshiba and the 660 and the vi600 they all have sms in fact they will not do short mail.

now about hot to text message a sprint customer the easyest way is to goto the sprint websight and there is a link there
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wldthng842

Mar 24, 2004, 9:03 PM
the 8100 he said he had does shortmail!
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stevelvl

Mar 24, 2004, 11:19 PM
who said the 8100 doesn't do short mail?
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TheBosnian

Mar 25, 2004, 4:13 PM
What phone u have? 👿
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stevelvl

Mar 25, 2004, 11:10 PM
vm 4500
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lil_wayne_1029

Mar 27, 2004, 11:01 PM
i have the motorola t720 and my carrier is cingular and my friend has a sprint phone
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