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UK Discount Vouchers for Mobile Phones

Vouchercodes.co.uk is a website that collects the latest discounts and coupons and puts them all together on their website for you to access easily. Among their many categories, are discounts for mobile phones, SIM cards, call time and mobile accessories from companies such as 3 Mobile, Carphone Warehouse, Dial-a-Phone, Mobilephonesdirect, T-Mobile and many more. www.vouchercodes.co.uk

30 Free SMS When you Register with Vopium

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Vopium is a voip application that can be downloaded to most mobile phones and gives cheaper mobile phone calls and cheap sms over a voip network. Vopium have a sign up offer of 30 free minutes of call time and 30 free sms so that new users can try out their service at no cost.

You need to have an internet enabled cell phone, then register at the Vopium site, receive a link sent by sms to your phone, where you can connect to and download the Vopium software. The software supports your existing contact list and you can phone other Vopium users for free if you're in a wifi area.

Sign up now to get your 30 free sms, and to find out more about the Vopium service visit their website at vopium.com or read a review of their service for cheap mobile phone calls visit GetDialing.com .

Free SMS to Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia

160by2 have now added Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Philippines and Malaysia to their free text service – previously 160by2 offered free sms within India (you need to be in one of these countries to use the service). They offer a web to mobile service as well as a mobile application which, when downloaded to your cell phone, lets you send free text messages directly from your mobile device.

The texts are free because a small advert is added to each text, which means that texts are a maximum of 80 characters, but hey, they're free. You must register first, then you can send 50 free text messages per day, with a limit of 10 messages to any one particular phone number in a day. 160by2. – 28 July 2009

Sell or Recycle Your Old Mobile Phone

Send your phone off to MoPay

Do you have an old mobile phone or phones that you no longer use? With mopay.co.uk you can get a cash payment for you old mobile. It's so easy, visit mopay.co.uk and search for your model of mobile. Then enter its IMEI number (you can find this usually on the back of the handset, but sometimes inside) and the website will tell you how much it will pay for your phone. If you're happy with the amount, simply FREEPOST your phone off to MoPay and you will be paid within three days (it's a UK address).

The amount you will get depends on the mobile device you have and whether it's working or not – sometimes even phones that aren't working will still quality for a payment. You have to specify if your phone is 'Working', 'Non-working' or 'Beyond Economical Repair', but mopay.co.uk give a clear list of how these three categories are qualified; for example, having broken battery terminals means that the phone is beyond repair but not having a battery means non-working and therefore might still quality for a payment.

You can also choose to accept gift vouchers rather than a cash payment, and in some cases you are given a higher value if you are prepared to accept vouchers.

Most of the mobile devices received by MoPay are reconditioned and introduced back into the market. If they can't be fixed or reconditioned they will be recycled according to the WEEE Directive.

There's also the option to donate the money you receive for your phone to one of the charities that MoPay support, such as WWF, Crisis and Fauna & Floral International.

Sell your old phone to the Mobile Phone Xchange...

The Mobile Phone Xchange is another excellent website for selling your old or unused mobile phone. You can easily get a value for the model of handset that you want to sell, then simply post your mobile off and receive your money within three days – they pay by BACS, cheque or Paypal.

Old mobile phones are donated to charities and recycled so even if your old phone isn't worth anything, send it off now and at least it will be recycled: Mobile Phone Xchange

Cheap, Cheap SMS from your Mobile with FishText

FishText is a cheap sms service which lets you sent sms either from their website or directly from your mobile phone. To send sms from your mobile at the FishText cheap rates you first need to download their software to your Java compatible mobile device.

The FishText SMS rates are cheap, for example texts to the UK are 0.02p and to the USA 0.014p, and you can text to over 200 countries. So even when you're not sitting in front of your computer, you can send cheap sms AND if you text other FishText users it's FREE.

Sending the sms from your mobile phone requires an internet connection, even though this is brief you may well incur a charge for this from your mobile provider. The FishText website (html version) has a cost calculator which lets you work out what these charges will be. The prices are minimal and the FishText SMS service is still extremely cheap taking these into account.

SMS from your iPod Touch

This isn't free sms, but we thought you'd be interested anyway: ipTexter is an application that allocates a real mobile number to your iPod Touch, meaning that you can send and receive sms.

At the moment the service is only for text messaging, but ipTexter may well be developed further to include phone calls.

There is monthly cost of £7.99 for the number with incoming texts free and outgoing texts charged at 5p each, with pod-to-pod texts completely free of charge. There is also a lite version at £3.99 per month which is for the UK market only.

Cherple – Free sms to US cell phones from anywhere in the world

Cherple, a new way of sending free sms to cell phones in the US has today been added to TextMeFree.com. Cherple works slightly differently to most services listed on TextMeFree.com, but it lets you send free unlimited text messages to mobile phones in America. Here's how...

Download the Cherple software and install it on our computer, there's a Windows and Macintosh version). Send a free sms inviting cell phone users in the US to join the Cherple network. Send free unlimited sms to any US cell phone that has joined the Cherple network. Great! Cell phones that send sms to online Cherple users will incur their standard sms charges. You will receive sms replies to your Cherple software. Check out Cherple.

Telstra's New Voicemail to SMS Service

Telstra - the Australian telecommunications company - have launched a new service that lets you have your voicemail messages transcribed to an sms message which is sent to your mobile. The new service is called Voice2Text, and costs 40c per message or you can take out one of Telstra's monthly subscriptions, such as paying $10 for 25 messages. Even if the text messages that are transcribed are long messages, you will only be charged for one sms.

The sms will include the caller's telephone number so you can easily call them back or send an sms (unless of course they have their caller ID hidden). The audio messages are converted by computer, but if there are problems with the computer recognition a person will intervene, and any words that are not clear are marked by a question mark.

The service has been available to Telstra business customers for some time and has been reported to be running well and to be popular. The voice recognition service is provided to Telstra by a company called SpinVox.

Virgin Mobile Introduces Free SMS Plan to the Indian Market

Virgin Mobile's new free sms plan benefits new users and existing users with the ability to send 200 free sms every month - 100 national texts and 100 local texts completely free, and they can be sent to any network. However, there is a charge for the first three sms sent: the first three local texts sent are each charged at 50p, and the first free national texts are charged at RS 1.50 each.

There is not extra monthly charge to existing subscribers, and to access the new service customers simply have to recharge their account. The account is called "New Thumb Rule".

New Worldwide Site for Free Text Messages

Today, 14th January 2009, textmefree.com has listed the social networking site Blinko.com to its worldwide listings. Blinko offers free text messages to all Blinko users, and you simply have to register to gain access to the service. Registration is simple and so is sending free sms to other Blinko users throughout the world. Check out our review of Blinko.

MegaMobile in the Philippines has launched a new free sms service called M2M.

All you need is an email address to send free sms to anyone subscribed to the Globe and Smart networks (the Sun Cellular service is also due to be added soon).

There's no registration, to send an sms simply send an email to the mobile number of the recipient, followed by @m2m.ph. For example: 09208771234@m2m.ph . This email will be forwarded to the mobile phone number as an sms. If the recipient replies to your sms, you will receive that reply as an email.

The service also works in reverse, so any M2M mobile subscribers can send an sms to an email address. Texts should be sent to 2948 (Globe, Smart and Sun networks), and the message should start with 'M2M someone@yahoo.com' followed by your text message.

M2M messaging from emails is free but there is a charge for messages sent from mobile phones. For inquiries, email: support@mymegamobile.com or call 667-3332.

Google Mail users in the US can send sms to mobile phones in the US

If you have a Gmail account you can send sms to any US mobile phone, and it's free to use.

You can find full information on Google's sms service here, but basically the sms service uses Gmail's chat feature. You can send and received sms right from your Gmail account.

Features include being able to block users from sending you sms, and you can also easily stop all incoming sms – although you might want to make sure you know how to reinstate all incoming sms before using that feature!

Gmail users benefit from many of Google's new features that are constantly being developed, but free sms has to be one of the best. Hopefully it will be implemented for worldwide mobile phones soon.

Vodafone Malta Gives Free SMS if You Top Up Online or by SMS

If you are a Vodafone Malta pay-as-you-go subscriber, then you can receive free sms every time you top up using the Vodafone Malta website or mobile sms service at BOV and HSBC.

If you top up with €20 you receive 25 free sms, and if you spend €50 on topping up you will get 100 free sms. The sms have to be used within one month or they will expire. What's more, if you are a new subscriber and topping up for the first time you receive 200 free sms.

To top up online, go to www.vodafone.com.mt . You need to set up an account if you haven't already done so, but this just means creating a username and password.

To top up using the sms service, you must first register with your bank (BOV and HSBC). To top up with €20 send an sms to 5061-6520 for BOV and to 5061-6620 for HSBC customers with the pin number you will have received.

To top up with €50 BOV customers have to send an SMS with the 4 digit PIN to 5061-6550 and HSBC customers to 5061-6650. You can top up whilst abroad too, and the sms sent to top up are free of charge.

Check our the website www.vodafone.com.mt for full terms and conditions. Customers can also call for free on 247 from their Vodafone mobile, or 9999-9247 from any other phone.

New Angle on Free SMS from Dial2Do.com

Dial2Do.com offers a service that lets you call a number and speak a message, a request or simply a reminder for yourself. That message can then be sent by SMS or email, or forwarded to your Twitter or Jaiku account.

The service is completely free and is accessible in several countries including Australia, Canada, USA, UK, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, Israel, and many european countries.

A number is allocated to each country where the service is available and you simply dial that number and follow the instructions. To register at Dial2Do visit their website.

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