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Piotr
08-08-2010, 05:06 AM
It's not nice that my mobile operator charges me 50 cents for any SMS that goes abroad, while using my internet voip account it costs me a couple of cents.
Moreover, some voip operators allow to send an SMS by a GET request with a URL that contains the account's credentials, the senders phone number and the message itself. See the section Using the VoipDiscount website:
http://www.voipdiscount.com/en/sms_instructions.html

So it is basically very easy to create a local HTML form that would allow to send an SMS from a phone through their service. But such a solution does not satisfy me because it's very inconvenient to type a senders phone number every time, while I already have him in my contacts. It would be perfect if I could simply reply on someone's SMS and it'd automatically go via the voip account.

If someone guides me I could try to develop such a thing myself since I am a software developer. I've had N900 for only few weeks and only yesterday installed the SDK, so I guess it would not go fast.
But from the other hand, I am quite motivated, because I don't like to be ripped off :)

gri
08-08-2010, 05:39 AM
There are already two applications supporting VoipDiscount and friends: WebTexter (http://maemo.org/packages/view/webtexter/) and Web2SMS (http://maemo.org/packages/view/web2sms/).

Sending via the closed-source conversations app is not possible with both, but they insert the messages sent there.

Piotr
08-08-2010, 06:18 AM
Oh, thanks a lot!
I wouldn't want to discover America a second time.

Is it possible to use the stadard messaging interface, just route all the outgoing SMS via the web?

gri
08-08-2010, 06:32 AM
Is it possible to use the stadard messaging interface, just route all the outgoing SMS via the web?

Nobody found out how or it was too much work (everyone's lazy :) ). There is a way to write rtcom-account plugins but that's too c'ish and gtk'ish for me ...