Send Free internationaltext messages (SMS)from your smartphone| using App JaxtrSMS

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2011
Devendra at 5:26 AM
Send Free international
text messages (SMS)
from your smartphone
| using App JaxtrSMS
Jaxtr, a company now owned
by Sabse technologies' Sabir
Bhatia, has the reputation of
coming up with creative ideas
for Voip services. They
introduced friend connect
where you can connect with
anyone in Jaxtr supported
countries by dialing local
access numbers on both ends.
They are back with an equally
creative service. They are
offering free international
text(SMS) messaging. You
can send a text to anyone at
their cell phone even if they
do not have jaxtr application
on their phone. This is a game
changer as texting is an
expensive affair even though
it is highly seeked by everyone.
Jaxtr Free text messaging
service
With Jaxtr's free text
messaging service you can:
Send free text
messages to any
domestic or
international cell
phone
Receiver need not
be a Jaxtr user
Send messages
from your own
phone number
Send messages
using wi-fi or 3G
Receive messages
for free (read the
trick at the end)
Step by step tutorial on how
to use JaxtrSMS
Download the
application from your
platform's support. Use
following links to download
the appropriate application.
Follow the on screen
instructions as shown in the
images below. These
screenshots are for iphone but
it is almost similar for other
applications.
After you have downloaded
the application you will be
asked if you want push
notifications. Push
notifications are great since in
this case you will see a
message popping up on your
screen to tell you that you
received a message. Next step
is to register with Jaxtr.
Remember that you need to
get a text to verify and
activate this number.
Once you provide all the
information and register it
will provide you with an
option to get a verification
link, SMS, or call. Please note
that if you use your Google
Voice number you might not
get the verification text, in
that case try a verification call
and you shall be fine.
We chose to test it with
verification call and instantly
we received a call where we
could enter the JaxtrSMS alert
code and we were all set to
send free international text
messages.
1. If you want to use your
contacts from your address
book make sure you have
their full number including
country code stored in your
address book.
2. These SMS messages are ad
supported. There will be a
little ad that will be
appended to each message.
This is how they are
supporting this free service.
3. There are a few users
reporting issues with push
notifications. Please let us
know what is your
experience with this service.
4. Your contact can reply to
your text but that reply will
be delivered to your phone
on Jaxtr - not on the regular
inbox. If you are offline this
message will never show up
in your inbox until you go
online next. Hopefully the
developers will fix it soon.
Receive messages for free
With JaxtrSMS you can also
receive text messages for free.
If your cell phone service
provider does not offer free
incoming text it is difficult for
you to receive a text using
JaxtrSMS as it will cost you for
every text that you receive. We
have found a trick to get away
with that.
In order to send and receive
text for free using Jaxtr
instead of registering with
your own number, register
with a Google Voice number.
Whenever, your contact will
reply to your message it will
be free as Google Voice still is
free. However, if your contact
downloads the application and
replies from within it the
message will show up in your
JaxtrSMS inbox as a
conversation.