Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Google Voice Easy SMS v1.0


Description:
Google Voice Easy SMS is a free application for Windows Mobile that allows easy text messaging (SMS) via your Google Voice account.

Features:
* It’s free. Who doesn’t like free stuff?
* Sends messages via the 3G data connection, meaning your outgoing SMS costs you nothing
* Interfaces with your phone’s contacts list
* Connects directly to Google via SSL to send your message, no man-in-the-middle servers that could potentially harvest your Google Account password
* Signature support
* Send to multiple recipients at once

Easy SMS will become completely open-source after I get the chance to comment some of the code, tidy up, etc.

Requirements:
* Windows Mobile Smartphone (aka Windows Phone); software has been tested on versions 6, 6.1, and 6.5, but the program may work with other versions.
* .NET Compact Framework 2.0
* A Google Voice account
* 3G or WiFi connectivity
* If your 3G plan charges by the kilobyte, be sure to keep track of your usage; this program uses very little bandwidth, but don’t try to blame data charges on me
* You must abide by the Google Voice terms of service when using this program

Features to Come & Improvements:
* I really want to stress that this software is brand new, and like all new software will probably have a few bugs and general frustrations. I’ve tried to be very through in testing, but you never know. Find something odd? Tell me how to reproduce the error and I’ll try to take care of it. Toss me an e-mail.
* Contact selection is mediocre, I’d love to make it more intuitive (something similar to Doug Melton’s iContact releases would be very nice, see http://supware.net for that). If you are a coder and want to give me a hand with that, shoot me an e-mail. My address can be found on the Contact Me page.
* Doug Melton, if you are reading this, I’d love to see you get something like this working with iContact and iDialer, because those programs are awesome! Just sayin’

More information:
Google Voice Easy SMS

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