SMS Text

Posted by Fox on May 7, 2008 at 2:50 PM

There's a competition to win an iPhone. It's a text to win sms text competition and it's only open to UK residents. They give away an iPhone each month, so there's no closing date to worry about.

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Source doipod.com

Posted by Fox on August 24, 2007 at 3:41 PM

Domino's Pizza now allow you to order your Pizza's via SMS Text. You need to register on their site and set up a bunch of your preferred 'pizza meals', giving each a 'memorable name'.

Then whenever you fancy a pizza, you text the memorable name for your chosen pizza meal to their shortcode. You still pay at your door for the pizza delivery, but clever stuff none the less! Check out Domino's Pizza UK website

Source : SMS Text Guide

Posted by Fox on July 24, 2007 at 7:21 AM

Feeling flush? How about a limited edition SMS text mirror?

For just $10,000 you can get your hands on a mirror that's able to receive SMS text messages sent from a mobile phone. The messages appear as luminous text, running on the mirrors’ surface when one gets close to the mirror. It's called The +336+ and is designed by Robert Stadler (of the French design group Radi Designers).

Buy it here (no, really)

Posted by Fox on July 24, 2007 at 5:46 AM

Buying concert tickets on your mobile phone. To be honest, I thought this was a waste of time when I first read it, you know... one of the "solutions to a non-existent problem".

But it turns out it has a couple of great features. First you can buy tickets to a concert for a friend and have it sent direct to their mobile phone, and second, if you lose your phone, you can have the ticket resent to a new mobile phone free of charge. Unlike losing a paper ticket, where you have to buy them again.

Ticket-Text.com naturally claim the tickets are cheaper, I dunno, but they don't have the post and packing fees that my usual ticket vendor charges me. Cool!

See Ticket-Text.com

Posted by Fox on June 19, 2007 at 3:26 PM

A new fun SMS service goes live. Get a sexy message from a fake friend sent to your mobile phone while you're sat with your friends in a bar. Get out of boring meetings with an emergency text sent by a fake family member.

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Posted by Fox on June 17, 2007 at 7:08 PM

David Seiver dropped me an email suggesting an SMS text service he'd come across.

HappyBirthdaySMS.com is great! You enter a few details such as your friends birthday, the message and the specific time to send it and they'll send the SMS text message FREE.

Now, what makes this really stand out is that they'll also send you a reminder one week before, and one day before your friends birthday. Very useful, especially for someone as forgetful as me.

The service is free, and funded by the advertising message that you get with your reminder. Clever thing is that the advertisement is for selected birthday gifts. Inspired! No adverts are sent to your friends number, they only receive your chosen birthday message.

Only way this could be more useful is if it sent me an SMS text reminder two weeks before my friends birthday, just to give a bigger head start on having the gift delivered to me in time for the celebrations. Also, it would be really great if the service was available outside of the USA, which it isn't :(

Click here to take a look.

Source : SMS Text Guide

Posted by Fox on June 4, 2007 at 2:08 PM

This SMS text section of The Thumb Lounge will be easy to keep up to date because of my SMS text blog. I'm constantly being emailed with details of the latest fun sms text service to hit the interweb.

As always, your really welcome to use the 'Comments button/form' to let me know of any cool SMS text stuff I'm missing. I'll make sure it gets featured for other Thumb Lounger readers.