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Found a Google-style SMS service that works over Metro

MetroPieceofShi

Nov 22, 2007, 1:00 PM
Hey guys I usually post on HowardForums and I thought I'd post this here too since a lot of you don't read that forum.

You all know that Metro doesn't let you send text messages to numbers that are only 5 or 6 digits right now, so you can't use Google's SMS service (by texting to 466453) to look up information like weather, movie listings, stocks, driving directions, etc.

Yesterday I found another service that WILL work over Metro because they have a 10 digit number you can text to. The site is called 411sms.com and to get SMS info through them you send text messages to 3109043113 like "weather 90210" "stock goog" and so on. If you send a text message that says "help" it gives you a list of everything you can text them.

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