typing SMS from laptop

March 28, 2009 8:16 PM

I have a macbook and I have a nokia N95 8gb. Is there any way I can type SMSs with the big keyboard?
posted by pompomtom to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Check out Blue Phone Elite. Well worth the twenty bucks.
posted by Etaoin Shrdlu at 8:21 PM on March 28

if i understand your need correctly: sign up for an AIM account if you don't already have it. get any aim client (original, digsby, trillian etc) if you send message to a screename using this format: [phone] with 1-800-555-8888 being the number you want to SMS it will send it to that number.

Unless I misunderstood the question; there wasn't a lot of details =c/
posted by pyro979 at 8:54 PM on March 28

If you have a gmail account, you can send texts through the chat function. It won't show up as being from your phone, but it'll stick your name on there.
posted by phunniemee at 9:11 PM on March 28

I'd recommend against the AIM/gmail/Skype/etc options if you want people to respond to your texts... I have a friend who regularly sends texts from skype... so I type a response, hit "send", and then notice an hour later that I was replying to SKYPE_USERNAME instead of to +614blahblah and my reply is sitting in my outbox with an error status...

that Blue Phone Elite thing looks nifty tho...
posted by russm at 1:24 AM on March 29

I'd recommend against the AIM/gmail/Skype/etc options if you want people to respond to your texts... I have a friend who regularly sends texts from skype... so I type a response, hit "send", and then notice an hour later that I was replying to SKYPE_USERNAME instead of to +614blahblah and my reply is sitting in my outbox with an error status...

At least for the Gmail SMS<>Chat function that's not true, as it comes from a specific telephone number Gmail/Google assigns to you, so responses show up in the chat window.
posted by polexa at 6:53 AM on March 29