Mosio is a handy web app that lets you text any question from your mobile phone and have it answered by real people. Just send an email message to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and receive up-to four different answers back.
Mozes lets you send and receive mobile messages to and from your favorite bands, social groups and friends.
Pinger lets you send free voice messages to any mobile phone. It’s like audio text messaging.
Swaggle is a free SMS messaging service that lets you send text messages to groups. To sign up, just send a text message (SMS) from your mobile phone to Swaggle, (206) 694-9197 or visit their website.
By calling 866-411-SONG and holding your cell phone near the radio you can get all the info you need about the artist, title, and album. 411-SONG will text you the info for 99 cents. There is an unlimited name that song plan that costs $3.99/month.
Just take a picture and send it to scanR from your Blackberry or other web enabled phone and they turn it into text that can be shared via email or fax. Store business cards, newspaper articles, and even info from white boards.
ShakeSMS enables Nokia’s N-series owners to read their text messages just by shaking their phone.
For the visually impaired, text based mobile technology doesn’t have much of a use. A new service from Audiopoint, called Voice Terminal Service (VTS), changes that. VTS is a service that alerts users via any telephone about updates to a news feed, keyword search, email or calendar item. Each item is read to the user over the telephone immediately after it happens.
SpotJots just launched their BlackBerry app , offering location-based social networking that includes voice, picture, music, video and text sharing. Using Google maps to let you find jots around the world, SpotJots acts like a GPS-powered social radar. Just text SPOTSJOTS to 41411 or visit their website with your BlackBerry browser.
Ghost Town is an interactive text novella from Virgin Mobile and YouthNoise, presented in text message format, with each message as a separate chapter and scene, the story of a teenage football player called Ghost who is hiding the secret that he’s homeless is entirely readable on your cell phone.
There are dozens of shortcut keys or keystroke combinations that allow better Blackberry usability. For example, hitting ‘J’ while reading emails will immediately call up the oldest message in the email chain.
Twitter app Twinkles on Apple’s new device. This star shines because it mixes in location-based services with Twitter, letting you tweet to show to others where you are, and also see the tweets of other users around you.
12seconds is a video status platform that will help you keep up to date with your friends. It’s a super easy way to share what you’re doing with friends and family using short video clips using a web cam or mobile phone to record and share 12second updates, just record and email or SMS it to the unique email address they give you and you’re good to go.
Subscribers to the popular DVD-by-mail service Netflix are in for a treat. A new feature allows users to send a text to Kwiry’s service with the desired movie title, and the movie is automatically added to the user’s queue! No more scribbling down the next hot movie you’ve read about or overheard some gossip on: just send a quick text message. The movie will be in your mailbox before you know it.
Get grilling tips on your cell by texting GRILL to 42107 or by typing mobile.foodnetwork.com into the browser on your Internet-enabled mobile device.
Ask ChaCha literally anything you want! Simply send a text message to ChaCha (242242) with any question you can think of. From restaurant recommendations, to directions, to pop culture references, to marriage advice ChaCha will reply with an answer. Unlike other text services where only specific information can be given from a computer, ChaCha connects you to a real person. A ChaCha employee “Guide” receives your question and will use the Internet to research the answer or if need be give their own opinion. ChaCha guides may answer in different ways , unless there is only one possible answer to your question. ChaCha is a great free SMS tool for info on the go or for just to having fun.
Jaxtr is a global mobile community that allows users to communicate with anyone across the world at a discount- or in some cases for no cost at all. Jaxtr’s services include free international calls and text messages to over 150 countries when contacting another jaxtr member. The cost is still reduced if you are calling or texting non-members. Jaxtr also provides the ability to screen calls and forward them to other phones. Becoming a Jaxtr member is easy and makes it less expensive to stay in touch with friends and business associates all over the globe.
There are a lot of options for voicemail to text conversion services, such as PhoneTag and PhoneWire, each costing $9-$30 a month, but SpinVox has a unique feature that others don’t. While all of these services convert voicemails to text or email messages, SpinVox’s new feature will provide added benefit busy business travelers. Federal regulations prohibit making phone calls during a flight, but SpinVox users can continue to get their voicemails as text messages or emails during a flight in a data-only environment and respond via email while still in the air or by text once on the ground.
Nimbuzz is a free mobile application that allows free chat, texts, file sharing and some free calls. It integrates chat from all of the major programs like Skype, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Gtalk, Facebook, MySpace, and more. It also allows you to place a widget on your website, blog, social networking page, which allows your friends to chat or text with you from a PC.
GrandCentral, Google’s latest acquisition, hopes to make managing multiple phone numbers an easier process. The service allows users to send calls from multiple phone numbers to one number, combine voicemail accounts and answer phone calls even as the caller is recording a voice message. Grand Central also allows users to record calls on the fly access the recordings online, receive voicemail notifications via email or SMS and others. One particularly innovative service is the ability to have people leave voicemails via a web service that hides your phone number.
Did you know that 3.8 million people suffer some sort of text-related injury each year? Or that reports of sore wrists and thumbs are up more than 38 percent over the last five years? If you take advantage of Virgin Mobile’s website PractiseSafeText.com, you can learn these facts and more, including a series of exercises you can do to prevent text-related injuries and maintain the digital dexterity you depend on to stay in touch with your friends and family!
