Free Texts: Includes virtually free texts from mobiles Discussion

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Sugarcubed

I have had an o2 sim for years that has the 300 free texts if you top up a tenner, which you can get more texts if you top up more. I love it, it means I can use all my topup on calls and text for nothing

dellwear

For the life of me I can't get Vyke Pro to install on my D600.

the lite version works fine and I really like the idea of the (cheap calls via) callback feature that will be a boon when abroad but it's going to be a real pain having to write down the number I want to text every time I want to send one.

Anyone else had this sort of problem? The site says it should work with newer phones.

simoneva

I cannot get it to download. Have tried on a motorola w375 and a sony w300i. Just get an error message saying invalid mime type.

SteveBentley

Also worth a look at twitter.com if you want a free way of texting a particular person from the net. You and they both set up a free account, associate your phone number with the account (you need to send one standard rate text to confirm your number), add each other to your followers list and then if you send each other "direct messages" from the site they will arrive on the other person's phone.

If you're handy with programming their API makes it very easy to knock up a "text me free" web page too.

darter

I can't see the download on the web page.......Am I missing sonething?

andyspar

simoneva wrote: »

I cannot get it to download. Have tried on a motorola w375 and a sony w300i. Just get an error message saying invalid mime type.

Managed to get vyke pro to work on my w300i is your phone unlocked?

CathChat

Sorry if im being an idiot but where on the orange website are the 30 free texts?

Former_MSE_Archna

CathChat wrote: »

Sorry if im being an idiot but where on the orange website are the 30 free texts?

Hi Cath,

If you use this link

https://services.orange.co.uk/sam/templates/web/sign_in.htm

it takes you to a page where you can send texts from the Orange website but you'll need to enter your Orange mobile number.

ikr2

This looks good - I can see how it would be great for heavy texters.

My current Orange PAYG plan seems to work well for me: Top up by £10 each month and you get 300 texts, £4 = 1MB of web browsing and 600 mins of calls to other Orange mobiles between 7pm & midnight. Plus of course the £10 credit to use for calls, extra texts or extra web browsing.

For my phone usage (100-250 texts, calls to 2 of my family with Orange mobiles, up to 2MB browsing per month, the odd general call) this seems to be the best plan.

websteri

I've just spent 30 minutes on the phone to Vodafone after I've had trouble downloading the Vyke free texts software to my phone. :mad:

Vodafone freely admitted that they've blocked all their customers from downloading it because we'd start taking revenue from them by routing calls and texts over VOIP instead of their network (well, at least they were honest).

One advisor I spoke to freely admitted that it was anti-competitive and restricted customer choice, and probably wasn't the best thing for the customer (admittedly I prompted him). I've asked someone to call me back to tell me when they're going to remove the block (I'm not confident they will, however, until someone like Offcom catches up and tells them to).