Thread: Send & Receive SMS Text Messages using Chat
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2009-10-01 , 22:46
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Originally Posted by Addison View Post
Okay, this is seriously catching my interest.

Are you saying that I can use Pidgin if all I want to do is send and receive messages to and from friends who have cell phones?
And yeah, I already have a Google Voice account.
It's just that Dial Central is a little rough to use, especially the need to constantly refresh messages.
Yes - you can also do it with the built-in chat client - just create an AOL chat account.

However - AOL reply numbers (the number your friends see) will expire after a few days.

Google disabled the SMS-through-chat API when it was being abused by a company selling an app on the iPhone that promised free unlimited SMSs. So as far as I know it no longer works with the built-in client (you can receive sms messages, but cant reply to them)
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