Make your dumb phone smart with text messaging tools for free!
By now you know the Frugal Tech loves a value! She’s not cheap but she has to spend her dollars around wisely. So what if you are among those souls who actually uses their phone for a phone and yet you know you’d like to do a bit more with it? Well have no fear for SMS, Short Message Service, or texting, and MMS, Multimedia Messaging Service, are here!
Unbeknowst to most of us, even the dumbest of phones is smart at the computer level smart (see our previous post on Sproxil for a nice example). With technology shrinking and packing ever more circuits closer and close together, even the most basic of phones has more capability than most of us would otherwise imagine. The technology of SMS/MMS is one way to access this technology. They alone allow you to communicate with a myriad of internet services to help you do what you need to do without the cost of a smart phone.
One site with two excellent tutorials on this is makeuseof.com They have written two tutorials that you’ll find handy to teach your old phone some new tricks:
- How to Make Your Mobile Phone Smarter with SMS/MMS Part 1
- How to Make Your Mobile Phone Smarter wit SMS/MMS Part 2
Great reading and good tips to make your technology more frugal today!
