Need a texting app

This is my phone.
http://www.wapzon.com/images/pro/lgVX5500.jpg

Would you rather text on that or the iPad :)
I dont want a phone that requires a data plan - my data is on the iPad.

Just to clarify, TextFree has its own phone number for texting. So your friends would need to remember to call you on one number and text to another. Its a little confusing, but its the only way I have found that allows them to easily initiate a text conversation to the iPad. When I used text plus, when someone sent a text to my phone, I would just reply and continue the conversation on the iPad. The first text in Text Plus has to be from the ipad.

I am not aware of a way for your ipad to take over the texting from your cell phone number that is assigned to another device. There might be a way if your phone is an iPhone and you have the same app on both devices, but I havent explored that since I dont have an iphone.

Would google voice work? Sign up for GV with your current #, then you can text from the web, and when not signed in via the iPad, have the text push to your cell phone-assuming you have unlimited texts on that plan.

Text plus has a setting for forwarding to your phone

What about google voice? Yes there's not an app for it, but I do quite a bit of texting via safari with my iPad and able to check via mobile phone (BB).

I have google voice for my side business, I never looked to see if it can do text messaging. That would be pretty neat - particularly if they would make an app for it. You really need something that can push notifications to your device though, a web interface cant really do that.

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Originally Posted by thedunn805

Text plus has a setting for forwarding to your phone

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I saw that, but I was confused as to why you would want to do that. Of course, but whole purpose to this was to eliminate the phone, so I didnt really look into it much.

I use Google voice. It will do exactly what the op was looking for.

You access Google Voice via the browser. I don't think there is an app for it.

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Originally Posted by iceman

I use Google voice. It will do exactly what the op was looking for.

You access Google Voice via the browser. I don't think there is an app for it.

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So if somebody sends a text message to my current cell # it will show up on GV? Kind of confusing.

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Originally Posted by iceman

I use Google voice. It will do exactly what the op was looking for.

You access Google Voice via the browser. I don't think there is an app for it.

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but I think I can figure it out. Maybe