I understand that AIM clients can be used to send SMS messages to other people's phones, but if someone texts your cellphone number, it'll still come thru as a 20 cent SMS to your phone, no? I don't see how your AIM client could intercept the SMS message.
A work around for that would be to subscribe to the smallest SMS package then when someone texts you, you respond using the AIM client. After you respond to them they simply need to respond to your IM. This way you only use 1 SMS text. You could also tell any friends that you often text with that happens to have an AIM client on their phone to use IMs instead SMS.
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But will it be available on the iPhone?
Will it work just like IM does on a Mac/PC?
Or does it not work in the background?
It should, but alas, I don't have an iPhone 3G so...
I understand that AIM clients can be used to send SMS messages to other people's phones, but if someone texts your cellphone number, it'll still come thru as a 20 cent SMS to your phone, no? I don't see how your AIM client could intercept the SMS message.
A work around for that would be to subscribe to the smallest SMS package then when someone texts you, you respond using the AIM client. After you respond to them they simply need to respond to your IM. This way you only use 1 SMS text. You could also tell any friends that you often text with that happens to have an AIM client on their phone to use IMs instead SMS.