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Send iMessages from iOS 5 to a iOS 4 device.

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ant2009

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Hello,

I have just bought my first iPod touch 4g white.

I have some friends that are still using iphone 3G that runs on iOS 4.

I am wondering is it possible to send an iMessage from an iOS 5 device to a device running iOS 4?

Many thanks for any advice,
 
It's my understanding that iOS5 initiated the iMessage capability and I think both devices have to be on iOS5 for it to work. Not positive, though.
 
You can send an iMessage, but it will arrive as an SMS on an iOS4.x device.
(and you will still get charged for the SMS!)
 
808? said:
You can send an iMessage, but it will arrive as an SMS on an iOS4.x device.
(and you will still get charged for the SMS!)
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Not iPods / iPads though. Just phones (any phone with SMS will work, messages will be colored Green).
 
Hello,

Thanks for the advice,

I am just wondering what is the best app for sending messages between ios devices?

Thanks,

Steve
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

Ya. iPods (and wifi-only iPads) have to use the iMessage to text. No wireless connection in either to handle the regular SMS.
 
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