How to send email from your computer to a cell phone.
How to send a text message or photo from your cell phone to someone’s email address.

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Getting content from your computer to your phone, or from your phone to someone’s email is not only EZ, it can be a lifesaver.

The other day a friend EMAILED me ELABORATE DIRECTIONS to her home. Problem was, I needed those directions on my cellphone to take with me in the car. So I forwarded that email from my laptop to my cellphone.   Then yesterday one of my programmers needed to have me look at a screenshot right away, but I was away from my laptop, so I told him to “send it to my cellphone as a multimedia text message.”

And frequently, I take photos with my camera phone and want to put them on my computer or send them to someone else’s computer.

Here’s how you can send a TXT Message or Photo from your cellphone to an email address:

1) In your cellphone’s text message program, type the email address of you want to receive your text message into the “to:” field and press send.  That’s it!  (If including a photo, remember to attach/insert it).

So for example, if you wanted to email me from your cellphone to my email address, you’d type my email address in the “to:” field…  TO:neil@sundaysoftware.com  It really is that simple.

Since I often send photos from my cellphone to my laptop, I have created a contact in my cellphone’s directory named “Email Neil” -and put neil@sundaysoftware.com as the email address, –leaving the phone number field blank. The cellphone software, sees that the phone number field is empty and uses the email address. Nice.

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Here’s how to send Email from your computer to a cellphone number:

(They will receive it as a text message on their computer)

You just need to know the following:

1) the person’s cell number
2) the specific email address of their cell service provider (such as “txt.att.net”)

Then…
In your email program you create a ‘new’ email, and in the “To:” line, type the person’s cell phone number, –followed by their cellphone provider’s specific email address. If like me, you need to forward an email to your own cellphone, you just click ‘forward’ on that email and type in your own cellphone number, -followed by your cellphone provider’s email address.

So for example, if you wanted to send me an email from your computer to my cellphone, you’d send an email to 6145278776 @txt.att.net  (because I use ATT)

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Below is a list of the email ”gateway” addresses for different carriers. 

I’ve listed the top three most popular first. Note: if you’re sending a Simple Text Message (”txt” or “SMS”), the address is slightly different on some cell carriers than if you’re sending a “Multimedia Message” (MMS) which would include a photo, for example.

Note: do not include the ‘bracket’ [ ] in the email address.

AT&T
Text (SMS): [the 10-digit phone number]@txt.att.net
Multimedia Text Msg (MMS): [the 10-digit phone number]@mms.att.net
Example: 2225557777@mms.att.net

(I’m not really sure you need to include the txt. or mms.  anymore with ATT. I usually don’t and their servers seem to know exactly how to handle my email coming into the phone. Might be true for the other services too. Try it out.)

Verizon
Text: [10-digit phone number]@vtext.com
MMS: [10-digit phone number]@vzwpix.com
Example: 2534567890@vtext.com

Alltel
Text: [10-digit phone number]@message.alltel.com
Example: 1234567890@message.alltel.com

Sprint PCS (now Sprint Nextel)
Text: [10-digit phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com
MMS: [10-digit phone number]@pm.sprint.com
Example: 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com

Boost Mobile
[10-digit phone number]@myboostmobile.com
Example: 5234567890@myboostmobile.com

Nextel (now Sprint Nextel)
[10-digit telephone number]@messaging.nextel.com
Example: 2534567890@messaging.nextel.com

T-Mobile [10-digit phone number]@tmomail.net
Example: 1234567890@tmomail.net

Virgin Mobile USA
[10-digit phone number]@vmobl.com
Example: 1234567890@vmobl.com