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Do you guys have a texting plan on your Iphone?

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Bankaimadness

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Seeing as there are apps that lets you text for free, I was wondering if its still worth getting a texting plan.

You can use your dataplan in conjunction with the app so I was wondering if a Texting plan is worth it on the Iphone.
 
I have the $5-200 text plan just for incoming. I'm not a big texter in the first place so it works. I send my outgoing through text plus or google voice. If you have a lot of friends on different platforms, I imagine it would be tough.
 
I have the unlimited texting plan.

The texting apps that I've tried are useless, lots of times you'll get no notification at you got a message.
 
Mr Kram said:
I have the $5-200 text plan just for incoming. I'm not a big texter in the first place so it works. I send my outgoing through text plus or google voice. If you have a lot of friends on different platforms, I imagine it would be tough.
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For text plus you can set your phone number with the app, so your friends don't have to add your incoming and outgoing right?
 
Bankaimadness said:
For text plus you can set your phone number with the app, so your friends don't have to add your incoming and outgoing right?
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Applejuiced said:
True, and also if someone decides to text you and you dont have a plan you get charged per text received also.
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As I understand it, validating your other only allow other text plus users to go to the app. This is why I have a minimal plan to account for this.
 
Mr Kram said:
As I understand it, validating your other only allow other text plus users to go to the app. This is why I have a minimal plan to account for this.
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text free gives you a "fake" number that you can text mobile numbers without the need of the recipient having to had the app too.
 
Family unlimited is the best deal. We have 5 lines on my plan, so it's really a great deal. Collectively we send/receive 10,000+ texts per month.
 
Bankaimadness said:
text free gives you a "fake" number that you can text mobile numbers without the need of the recipient having to had the app too.
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True, but it's a pain to have another number to keep track of and I don't want to subject my friends to that.

And if you text them first, all subsequent texts go through text plus.
 
Mr Kram said:
True, but it's a pain to have another number to keep track of and I don't want to subject my friends to that.

And if you text them first, all subsequent texts go through text plus.
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So you are using text plus and have the 5$ data plan?
 
Yes. It's kind of abusive to the people you text to use those cheesy free texting apps. No one likes getting text messages like this:

FRM: THE GENERAL
TO: 6615551234
SUBJ: NULL
hey dude what up
 
The General said:
Yes. It's kind of abusive to the people you text to use those cheesy free texting apps. No one likes getting text messages like this:

FRM: THE GENERAL
TO: 6615551234
SUBJ: NULL
hey dude what up
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this is true. truthfully, if you text a lot to a large number of people, just get unlimited texting through your provider. i really have maybe 5 or 6 people that text and my $5 plan with 200 texts would probably cover that. however, i use text plus as a backup, just in case. one thing i do like, however, is that text plus allows a multi-user chat - kind of cool if you want to talk to several people at once.
 
when i do switch next month, im only going to get 200 texts for $5 a month for both iphones on my account. the only person that im gonna be texting hundreds of times a day will be with the misses, so were gonna use WhatsApp messenger for that
 
For me, the texting apps are a PITA. Since I have friend's who have BB's, Android phone's etc. it works out better for them and me if they have my actual cell phone number. So I have the $15-1,500 text plan since I generally use about 1,000 texts/month.
 
I was wondering the same thing. I only have 1 person that I text but 200 is not enough. I was thinking of getting an iPhone and was wondering about the free texting apps myself, but I really don't want to subject her to the hassle. I wish AT&T had a plan between the $5 200 and $15 1500 message plans.
 
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