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Dear HackCollege,
I heard somewhere that there’s a way I can email pictures and songs to my cell phone. Do you guys know anything about that?
Sincerely,
Thatwouldbesocool
Yes, you heard correctly. Although this depends completely on your network and cell phone, in addition to text messages (SMS) you can typically also send and receive short emails and also small multimedia messages (See: MMS [Wikipedia]).
These multimedia messages, however, do have a size limit (generally 100kb or possibly 300kb). This means, the photo or video or song clip has got to be small.
Know your network and your 10-digit phone number:
T-mobile: 5551231234@tmomail.net
Verizon: 5551231234@vtext.com
Cingular: 5551231234@mobile.mycingular.com or 5551231234@cingularme.com
AT&T: 5551231234@mmode.com
Alltell: 5551231234@message.alltel.com
On a different network? See the full list [TechnoTarget].
OR you could just use Teleflip and let them figure out where the message should go. Check out our post “Free iPhone SMS with Teleflip” for more information.
Chris Brogan...
on March 8, 2008 @ 8:19 am
There’s a really neat service called Teleflip (not sure if it’s still working), and you can send any US phone number email via it.
5551234567@teleflip.com and then THEY sort it out. : )
Kelly Sutton
on March 8, 2008 @ 8:23 am
Chris (our other writer) loves teleflip.
Max R.
on June 18, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
Nice service. I just checked (06/18/2008) and the site appears to be up still. I just might give this a try.
One thing to watch out for obviously, is to make sure you’re not using an email address where you will get lots of long emails or even junk mail, because just a couple of those messages can eat up your text message credits quickly!
wayne
on July 17, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
I just recieved my phone and accidently erased all my wall paper and ringtone’s,I do not mind paying for them but after 4 hours playing games with the jerks on the other end of the phone and nothing they told me to do worked ,so I gave up and decided to try something else. If you have any ideas on how i can get a few pictures for wall papre and a few ringtones i will be greatful thank you for your time wayne.
Guru
on July 19, 2008 @ 11:34 am
Quite good informative post
Shawn
on July 25, 2008 @ 4:32 am
I tried sending a picture to my phone using the addresses above.. I have att(cingular network) and it didn’t add the picture. I got the subject and text but not the picture that I attached, I sent several times using teh cingular and att addresses and resized the pic as well from 1.3mb down to 53k, others said it works but it didn’t for me, what am I doing wrong. you can email me at truejunkmail@yahoo.com