If your wireless contract includes an extra fee for text messages, use your regular email account instead to keep in touch with your friends on the Sprint network. Sprint's wireless service ...

The good news is that nearly all carriers still let you send a text message directly to an email address even when you have no cellular data or Wi-Fi connections available. This is because SMS and ...

We'll cover that in the next section; for now, though, the quickest way to get started sending SMS messages via email is just to use your normal mail app and the appropriate gateway addresses.