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Crickee: Send Free Unlimited SMS From Your Phone And PC

December 28th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

Finding the Crickee service was a bonus today. I hardly ever look at my Technorati inlinks, but my eye was drawn to the ‘Crickee Blog’ link as it looked like spam. I was pleasantly surprised to not only find that I was ‘Crickees ‘Crush Of The Week‘, but to also discover that Crickee offered a great free PC and Mobile SMS service, which offers unlimted SMSs.

To send SMSs the Crickee site has to be used, or a special client downloaded to your phone. Downloading the client was simple. All I had to do to download the client was enter my phone number on the site and a WAP push message was sent with a link to download the client.

I’m not sure what the recipient sees yet or whether they can reply. If they can reply to my phone (and I’m guessing this is how Crickee will make money) then I’m going to switch over all of my SMSs to this. I tend to send around 200 SMSs a month which costs me Ã‚Â£24. Crickee have estimated that 100 SMS will use around 100Kb of data, so if I use my Vodafone network then it will only cost me 45p to send 200 SMSs.

Using Crickee will mean that I’ll also be able to send more international SMSs which I try not to do as I think they cost around 50p a pop. Better still, is the fact that if I use the WiFi connection on my Nokia N80 then sending the SMS will cost me nothing.

The service is available in most countries which is fantastic, as all Connected Internet readers should be able to give the service a go.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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#1

Pingback by Crickee: Send Free Unlimited SMS From Your Phone And PC » OneTipADay.com on 29 December 2006:

[...] According to Everton, he even managed to get the service to work via a WiFi connection, which removes or reduces any mobile data charges you might have had. More: Crickee [...]
#2

Comment by shiplu on 11 May 2008:

i want to send free sms from pc
#3

Comment by shiplu on 11 May 2008:

sms option
#4

Comment by raj on 19 May 2008:

how do i send sms using gprs u said that Crickee have estimated that 100 SMS will use around 100Kb of data, so if I use my Vodafone network then it will only cost me 45p to send 200 SMSs.
i want to do it so plz help me in doonmg it so
#5

Comment by Everton on 19 May 2008:

@Raj

Just register and install crickee and you are good to go