I discovered this nifty trick by accident the other day.
If you have MMS enabled, people can actually email you a message and you actually get it as an MMS. Some things to remember:
- Recipient must have activated their MMS service
- Email must be in plain text format, otherwise it will ask the recipient to retrieve the message from the Internet, which kinda defeats the purpose of "free and instant" messaging.
- Recipient's email address is in the form: 63922xxxxxx@mms.suncellular.com.ph. That's the recipients phone number in international GSM format without the '+' prefix.
- Sun cellular limits the message to 300k. That's almost 300,000 characters long, too long for most messages and you'd wish you read it in a computer instead. For goodness sake, that's equivalent to over 500 pages, of single-spaced text. Now imagine the cost of sending that much text via SMS.
- If you're residing abroad, and the only way you communicate with your loved ones in the Philippines is through text, then it gets really expensive, about PhP 10 per message. Sun only charges PhP 2.00 for every MMS sent. Receving MMS is free of charge.
Have fun!
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