4 Android apps to Send FREE SMS across India
Do you send a lot of text messages to your friends in India? Do you have friends or relatives abroad who you keep in touch with via SMS? If you do, and you have an Android phone, there is really no need to spend money on recharges or watch your post paid mobile bills soar higher.
Here is how you can save money and send free SMS with these Android apps that you can download on your phone.
Free SMS to India
Free SMS to India is an Android app that allows users to send free and unlimited text messages to any mobile in India directly from an Android phone. This app gives you the advantage to use multiple gateways like Way2SMS, FullonSMS, Site2SMS, 160by2 and YouMint. The developer is also open to being contacted to add more gateways.
The interface is simple and Free SMS also allows you to choose from the huge library of sample texts for different occasions that you may be sending messages for. What seems like icing on the cake is the developer’s claim that this app saves battery life and RAM as it transfers the processing and operations to external servers.
JaxtrSMS
Launched in November 2011, JaxtrSMS allows users to send unlimited and free text messages to any phone anywhere in the world. The SMS recipients are not required to install the app before using it. This makes it the world’s first mobile based SMS app which is completely open, claims Sabeer Bhatia who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Jaxtr, TOI reported. Amongst a host of free SMS services, this ‘open’ feature of JaxtrSMS gives it an edge over other SMS apps. According to Bhatia, this ad supported multi-platform app will make traditional texting redundant.
Free2SMS India
Like the other apps, you can enjoy sending free and unlimited text messages to anywhere in India with Free2SMS India. It currently supports way2sms, fullonsms and site2sms and more gateways are likely to be added soon.
Using your data plan, Free2SMS India can also perform functions like switching gateways easily, allowing you to access Sent and Received messages from the app and integrating your Contacts to send text messages directly through the app. This app has got some great reviews and a 4.2 star rating on Android Market mainly due to its simple and easy to use interface.
Free SMS Way
With Free SMS Way, you can share not only texts but also links, phone numbers and other numericals captured from Barcode Scanners. For the user’s ease text messages are shown in conversation view from where the sender or the receiver can be called directly. This app supports numerous free gateways and also provides a range of emoticons and smileys for the SMS-obsessed. Users have consistently given this app good feedback on Android Market.
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