You then log into the MightyText website on your computer and it will sync all the text messages from your phone. The way it works is that you install the MightyText app on your Android phone, which will then link your phone number to your Google account. If you have an Android phone, then you have another option available to your for sending text messages from your computer. You can send text messages to any phone number as long as it’s a phone number in the US or Canada. Click on that and it will open a new windows to the left and the text box says Send an SMS message. You’ll notice a new icon with the letters SMS written on it at the top when the chat window opens. As of now, you can only send SMS messages to US numbers. Search for a contact by clicking on the little magnifying glass icon next to your name in the chat section and make sure the number is a US phone number. Now go ahead and restart Chrome and log back into your Gmail account. Since Google seems to be moving everything over to Hangouts now, I would suggest you set it up this way. Once you check that box, all your SMS messages will go through Google Hangouts rather than thru Google Voice. If you have chat disabled, you need to go to Settings – Chat and turn the chat back on. Once you have it setup with a number, go to Gmail and click on your name in the chat window that on the left hand side. Make sure you sign up using the same email address you use for your Gmail account. To set it up, you first have to make sure you have a Google Voice account. Google Voice will let you send text messages directly from the Google Voice service once you sign up for a number, but you can also integrate Google Voice into Google Hangouts so that you can send SMS messages where you use Google Hangouts, i.e.
The other service I use for sending SMS messages from my computer is Google Voice and Google Hangouts. T-mobile – – Mobile – – PCS – Cellular – Google Voice via Google Hangouts Here are all the ones I could find online: The format is basically the nine digit number whatever domain the carrier has chosen.
You can send an email to this special email address and that phone number will receive a text message. Send Emails to Phone NumbersĪnother feature that most carriers have that a lot of people don’t know about is an email address that is associated to your phone number. If you need to send an SMS to someone not on the same network, then continue reading. If you can’t figure out where to send a text message on your carrier website, just Google send SMS via carriername website and you’ll find the answer. Here are a couple of links that walk you through the process of sending a text message via the carrier’s website: