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SMS Touch: Send Free Text Messages Through Email [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo — ... In other words, you can send SMS messages while all the while communicating in email. Priced at $5, part of that fee goes to ongoing backend support for the program. And if you're interested, it'll pay for itself three times in one month anyway. [SMS Touch] ...

iPhone App Delivers the Gift of Free Texting
Wired: Gadget Lab — A new application enables iPhone owners to type text messages in landscape mode -- and even better, it sends these messages for free. SMS Touch, a $5 app available through the App Store, displays a landscape keyboard and works with your contacts list to send SMS messages. The messaging is free because instead of sending an SMS, the app e-mails the message through an SMS gateway, which eventually reaches the recipient's phone in the form of a text. True, you can already do this manually over e-mail, but that would require memorizing the phone ...

Reach Out And Text Someone -- For Free
iSmashPhone — Those clever lads who gave us TouchType (the landscape-mode email program) may have outdone themselves... With SMS Touch, you type out a message and send it as a regular email to anyone in your phonebook.  Here's the clever part: they receive it (and can respond to it) as a normal SMS message, BUT their response comes back to you ...

Article: iPhone Gems: “Free” SMS and MMS Alternatives for iPhone and iPod touch
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — While some might question whether it’s truly revolutionary, Apple’s iChat software has continued to do an exemplary job of unifying several different forms of communication—text, voice, and video—into a single program that “just works,” at least, most of the time. Thus, when the iPhone launched, users were surprised to see Apple take a less aggressive stance towards phone-based messaging: it left out support for iChat-style instant messaging, pushed users to use needlessly more expensive and limited SMS text messages, and featured no option for sending or receiving MMS messages containing photos, audio, or video. [image] To be very clear up front, iLounge feels strongly ...