Chikka + GoogleTalk = Free SMS

Posted by Mike Lopez under Mike's Blog
Sep 2006
18
12:51am


I text a lot of people in the Philippines and I was tired of using Chikka’s Javalite client which is my only option since I use Linux as my operating system.  I searched for an alternative way of sending SMS messages to people in the Philippines and I found out that Chikka tied up with GoogleTalk.

The process is simple and painless.

  1. Get a GoogleTalk account if you don’t have one yet.
  2. Add the number of the person that you want to send an SMS message to to your GoogleTalk buddy list using the following format: 63xxxyyyyyyy@chikkatalk.com where xxx is the mobile carrier number and yyyyyyy is the last 7 digits of the cellphone number.  Example: 639181234765@chikkatalk.com
  3. Type in your message and press send or hit enter.

I tried sending SMS messages to myself and it was fast.

Now, I can get rid of that pesky javalite client from Chikka.



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