Cheapest way to txt msg from usa/manila?

[beameup 0]

Well.......

I wouldnt mind buying a phone. I just dont want to type into those tiny little five letters per number key phones. It takes five minutes to type "HI".

Ideas?

Shrinking the size of my fingertips might be an option.

Seriously, believe it or not, you get used to typing in on those little phones. I can now drive in the Philippines and send a message at the same time without looking at the cellphone. Pretty scary huh?

[kyle_lairic 0]

My phone carrier is Metropcs. $45 for the phone service. They charged me $3 a month for unlimited txt to the philippines. But the downside is, you can only use this phone in San Francisco, Bay Area. But if you want unlimited calls to the philippines. Subscribe to mabuhaycalls. It's $65 a month. Get the cellphone instead of bag phone. This service is only within metromanila. You can use any phone here.

[sbgwolf1 0]

We use yahoo on the cells. If you log into messenger on the US phone, it counts as a local text, so select your package accordingly. Verizon has one that is $5 for 250 texts and $10 for 500 I think (they just changed). If you have the person over there sign into yahoo and register thier mobile, then sign sign into mobile IM on yahoo, they will have yahoo sending/recieving messages/texts on thier cell. The great part is recieving is free to them and sending a text was only p2.5 instead of p15. My baby and I did this always.

Hope this helps. One thing, you can even log them on from here if they cant get to a cafe, but you need thier id/pw/cell number. Also, it will send a confirmation code to them that you input as the registering process (to verify the person registering the phone really has it). This basically means if you will register for them, make sure you can have them tell you the code to complete registration. Once this is done, you have cheaper texting and mobile texting for both of you, no computers restricting your movement or conversations.

Thats what we found works best.

S&T

[sbgwolf1 0]

Continued from above post.

Another suggestion to help us work around inconvieniences. We created new yahoo id's that only each other would use. Then when I logged into it on my cell, it stayed logged in for 24hr access for her to send messages. (This is because logging into yahoo on the pc would kick off your other signed in session, understandably). Also, when her's was registered and logged into yahoo, the same thing. Once in a while the network would kick you off and you gotta resign in, but thats a minor inconvienience compared to that phone bill (it isn't even weekly that this happens so dont think everyday or anything).

S&T

[Jimmy and Angela 0]

I use chikka to text a good bonus is... if she runs out of load I can send it to her and you can log your texts and they send you an email receipt for the load.

[dj1206 0]

My fiance in the U.S. can't read my text messages to him. He just receives a notice perhaps or something coz he knows I sent something but can't read it.

[Jasman0717 9]

Why not use Yahoo Messenger. It also has a phone connection. I used to talk to my friend in CDO all the time.