Using Mobile Text Messaging
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What Is Mobile Text Messaging in Yahoo! Mail?
Email and chatting are great when you want to communicate with friends on computers. Now with Yahoo! Mail’s mobile text messaging feature, you can also reach out to friends and family through their SMS-enabled mobile devices, without having to use a separate text messaging application.
You know the kind of situation. You’re at the office and your teenager and her cell phone are out there somewhere. You need to know what she’s up to, but you don’t really want all your cubicle neighbors to listen in on a phone conversation. You can simply sit at your computer, send a mobile text message to your child using Yahoo! Mail, and receive an immediate response.
So, let’s just repeat the highlights and get you texting!
- Mobile text messaging lets you communicate with your contacts in real time so that you receive instant replies.
- Use mobile text messaging to communicate with any of your Yahoo! contacts who have an SMS-enabled mobile phone or other communications device.
- Use Yahoo! Mail mobile text messaging without downloading additional software.
Notes: Wireless carriers may charge your contacts fees for receiving
and sending text messages. But Yahoo! Mail users are not charged
for sending or receiving mobile text messages in Yahoo! Mail—for
you, it’s free!
Mobile text messaging is not available in all geographic
locations. For more information about the countries and wireless
carriers that support Yahoo! Mail mobile text messaging, click here.
What’s Next
All you have to do to start mobile text messaging is sign in to chat through your online status.
Words to Know
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.
- Mobile device: a wireless communication device for exchanging voice, text, and/or graphic information; includes pagers, mobile phones, web phones, pagers, two-way pagers, PDAs, and Internet appliances.
- SMS: abbreviation for "short message service", which is another name for text messaging.
- Mobile text messaging: sending and receiving written messages on a variety of devices via "short message service" (SMS).