[rescue] OT: Cellphone SMS to email

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Caleb Shay says ...

> Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>
> > I want to have a special account with the cell company so
> > people can just
> > send an SMS message to a phone number, but it automagically (and without
> > user action) becomes e-mail to a certain address.  Is that possible?
>
> Technically I suppose it's possible, but I don't know of any cell
> company that offers it.  Nextel lets you associate an email address a
> person as well as their phone number, so you can just choose the person
> from your address book and send any type of message, including one
> especially cool feature where you leave a voice message for a number, it
> gets converted to an mp3 and then a link to the mp3 is emailed to the
> person.

That's interesting, but, of course, not what I'm thinking about.  Maybe
NextTel is flexible and creative enough to do what I want, though, if I can
find the right person to talk to.

-S