Gmail and SMS
I recently picked up two Samsung SCH-u740’s (buy on get one free). One I use and one is for my daughter. I also added text messaging to my Verizon account. The text messaging was for my daughter, but it turned out to good for me as well. Now I can filter messages from my Gmail account and have them sent as a SMS message to my phone. Granted it’s a low tech mobile solution but I’m doing the typical life hacker thing and making the most of the tools I have at my disposal. First of all you have to have a Gmail account. Secondly you need a cell phone, preferably with unlimited text messaging, or you’ll risk paying through the nose for those extra text messages. Gmail has the option to filter messages. You can assign actions to those filtered messages like adding a label or forwarding the message to another email address. Yep, that’s our ticket right there. I filter messages based on client email domains. I then forward those emails to my Verizon account. Now here are a few things I had to dig up along the way.