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<u><a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29168583/How-do-I-send-a-text-sms-message-using-php.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29168583/How-do-I-send-a-text-sms-message-using-php.html</a></u> asked a few minutes ago answers this question.<br />
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Sending an SMS text requires a service, like <u><a href="https://www.twilio.com" rel="ugc">https://www.twilio.com</a></u> or building your own SMS infrastructure (much time + money required).<br />
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All SMS texting is the same across all devices.<br />
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There's no Android specific text messaging, any different than say iPhones or any other OS.
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Facetime is specific to Apple products only.<br />
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Apple uses their own text messenger instead of SMS when communicating with another iPhone. &nbsp;You can use Messages (or older iMessage) on your Mac and link it to your phone. &nbsp;A lot of people in the USA have iPhones compared to other countries, so SMS means Messages, basically a chat program instead. <br />
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Many phone companies have a site to let you use a webform to &quot;email&quot; sms text to the user. &nbsp;You can also send email. &nbsp;I used to cut and paste text to my friends that way once I knew which service they were on, since &quot;typing on a phone&quot; was just tedious, unless I was away from my computer.<br />
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Android phones did not have that on older versions and only used SMS. &nbsp;If their android phone is using email, then that's new and I don't have a newer android phone to test. &nbsp;I'm guessing that person is sitting at their desk responding to your text through email and knows which service you're on.<br />
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<a href="https://joyofandroid.com/how-to-send-text-messages-through-email-on-your-android-device/" rel="ugc">https://joyofandroid.com/how-to-send-text-messages-through-email-on-your-android-device/</a><br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; Alltel @message.alltel.com<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; AT&amp;T @txt.att.net<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; Nextel @messaging.nextel.com<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; Sprint @messaging.sprintpcs.com<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; SunCom @tms.suncom.com<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; T-Mobile @tmomail.net<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; US Cellular @email.uscc.net<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; VoiceStream @voicestream.net<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; Verizon @vtext.com (text only) @vzwpix.com (pictures and videos)
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Jackie Man

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Thanks David for your response. <br />
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I have a contact that has a Android phone. &nbsp;I have a MacBook Pro using Catalina 10.15.<br />
According to the text messaging heading I am sending an iMessage to his email account. &nbsp;<br />
We chat back and forth without delay. &nbsp;How is this possible with his email account?<br />
I have an AT&amp;T carrier. &nbsp;How would I send &nbsp;a SMS message to that person? &nbsp;<br />
And would they receive it as a text message?<br />
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I also have received several SMS messages from contacts as text messages from Amazon<br />
and turbotax. How am I receiving them as text messages on my Mac? <br />
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Thanks,<br />
Howie
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David, &nbsp;attached is png file of a chat with a Android user. &nbsp;It was received as an iMessage. &nbsp;My chat's are in blue text. Her reply chat is not colored. &nbsp;What process was used to accomplish this translation?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Howie<br />
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Howie Kay

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Thanks much for your help. &nbsp;This is obviously a difficult subject. &nbsp;But I believe for those of us tangled up in communication processing I think it's important to know what is happening in our world. &nbsp; That is if we expect to continue to enjoy our world.<br />
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Howie
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Could you explain the various connect options for Mac to Android text messaging. &nbsp;How does the Android email function like a text messenger? &nbsp; &nbsp;I just discovered by phone the person I was text messaging was recieving the text message in email. &nbsp;They messaged me back and forth as a if their email server was a text messenger. &nbsp; Is the iPhone messaging different than the Mac messaging? &nbsp; And facetime audio is Apple device only?
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Could you explain the various connect options for Mac to Android text messaging.  How does the Android email function like a text messenger?    I just discovered by phone the person I was text messaging was recieving the text message in email.  They messaged me back and forth as a if their email server was a text messenger.   Is the iPhone messaging different than the Mac messaging?   And facetime audio is Apple device only?

Messaging Mac to Android

Instant messaging (IM) is a type of online chat that offers real-time text transmission over the Internet. A LAN messenger operates in a similar way over a local area network. More advanced instant messaging can add file transfer, clickable hyperlinks, Voice over IP, or video chat. Non-IM types of chat include multicast transmission, usually referred to as "chat rooms". Depending on the IM protocol, the technical architecture can be peer-to-peer (direct point-to-point transmission) or client-server (a central server retransmits messages from the sender to the communication device).

Chat / IM

Programs written for the Apple operating systems are distinguished from software created for other operating systems in that it must be approved by Apple for use on its devices, whether it is from Apple (Final Cut, iWork, Keynote, Logic Pro and GarageBand are popular titles), or is a third party application from Parallels, Nuance, Microsoft and Amazon, among many others.

Apple Software

The iPhone is a smartphone made by Apple Inc. It and the iPad, along with several other mobile devices from Apple, run on the iOS operating system, which has its own topic, as does the iPad for device-specific questions. Native iOS applications are written in Objective-C or in Swift using the Cocoa Touch frameworks or HTML5 compiled with the help of a package manager such as Adobe PhoneGap; a common IDE is Xcode.

iPhone

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android's user interface is based on direct manipulation, using touch gestures that loosely correspond to real-world actions, such as swiping, tapping and pinching, to manipulate on-screen objects, along with a virtual keyboard for text input. In addition to touchscreen devices, variants of Android are also used on notebooks, game consoles, digital cameras, televisions, automobiles and other electronics. Applications are usually developed in Java programming language using the Android software development kit (SDK), but other development environments are also available, including Delphi, Ruby and Visual Studio (using C++).