Text from your iPhone for free

Here's another way to send totally free text messages (anywhere in the world!) with Frengo. It's super easy! http://m.frengo.com/hp?ref=bf

It's even worse for us folks who would be on a family plan. $30 for unlimited messages? Come on! Why no limited plans? My family has no need for more than 400 a month.

I have half a mind to make an app to send as many text messages as I can in some automated manner.

Just use your email. I've been using my iPod Touch for texting. As long as I have wifi, I can send free texts. (At least I think they're free for me...)

Dave, you really should be more responsible when reporting things where the original author obviously doesn't take the time to weed out spamware. A quick perusal of the comments from the original article makes me steer clear of this all together, but I know entirely too many people who wouldn't look past the "save $5" part.

You should note that a much better option is just to use the email address as pointed out (as an afterthought) in the original article.

Epic fail.

I appreciate the desire to try and help out those around us, but honestly, a little research would've made this post totally not worth posting. I was excited for about 30 seconds until I found out how they do this. I friggen hate the new pricing schemes, but good luck fighting the man. Especially Roger's customers.

@gary...thats why the data plan is unlimited so you won't have to worry about those charges. there is actually a better way to do this for free...it involves AIM and an IM client either native or web app :) I leave it up to you guys to figure it out

The title is misleading. You are not sending texts for free, you are just sending emails to a text enabled phone. How with this effect your data plan since all of these 'free texts' as well as the replies you get via email will be counted towards your data plan?

The more I see about the new iPhone price plan the less I want an new iPhone. So it is $10 more a month for the unlimited 3G data plan, that I can't use because we only have Edge in our area and now no text messages included. So in order to get the plan to be the same as before it is now $15 a month more. I am not seeing a compelling reason to justify $15/month for GPS. Might be time to pick up a used iPhone 16GB and go with that, if the old plans are still available for it.

Geez. Being hosted in the US doesn't automatically make all content on it US specific. Take French luxury goods maker LV's website for example..

for those of you that missed the news (Ryan and Jackson)
go to att wireless home page
shop >
plans >
view all the individual plans >
select the 39.99 (450 minute) plan >
select view details >
look at included plan features (note: no SMS) >
click on services >
look at the messaging features
READ THE PART WHERE IT SAYS MESSAGING 200 +5.00

and Ryan "Really, we have no choice but to take the extra $5 a month. I just wish they would've said the new plan was $35 a month instead of $30. Honestly, if you plan on sending or receiving more than 25 messages a month, then the $5 for 200 makes sense."

guess what buddy... the base plan is 39.99 which doesn't include data, so add $30 for 3G plus another $5 for SMS. that's $75 just for service.

the monthly for 3G is going to be closer to $90 once you include the random fees and taxes.