How to Send Email to a Cell Phone

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By Matt Lee
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Have you ever wanted to email someone's cell phone but didn't know how? Well now you can! Most cell phones that have text messaging capability can easily receive email without having to access the internet like you would need to do with a Blackberry or other PDA.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

To start, you need to know the cell phone carrier of the cell phone you want to send an email to. If you are unsure, you can look it up online at http://www.whitepages.com/10866/reverse_phone. Type in the cell phone number and press search. The returned results will inform you of the registered service provider (ie; cell phone company).
Step 2

Now you can determine the email address. The email address will be the cell phone number followed by the carrier extension. An example email address would be 8565551111@vtext.com for cell phone number 856-555-1111 with Verizon Wireless as a service provider. Some of the more popular cell phone carrier extensions are listed below.
Step 3

Verizon Wireless:(cell#)@vtext.com
Step 4

AT&T:(cell#)@mobile.att.net
Step 5

Cingular:(cell#)@mycingular.com
Step 6

Nextel:(cell#)@messaging.nextel.com
Step 7

T-Mobile:(cell#)@tmomail.net
Step 8

Sprint:(cell#)@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Step 9

Tracfone:(cell#)@cingularme.com

Comments

hjlew9999 said

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on 10/4/2009 Ij ust did this and it's great ! However can the process be reciprocated ? In other words can you reply to the email back as an email from your cell phone ?I tired doing it and don't see how it can be done.

ruf1950 said

on 6/25/2009 Thanks for showing me how to send an email to a cell phone. Excellent choice of topics. 5*****

opsman000 said

on 5/31/2009 For ATT @mms.att.net also works for mms messaging. Gives sender's email addr in from box. The @txt.att.net gave 1010100001 as sender but showed the sender's name when you read the message. Luv that att!