Beejive is a viable option. You can keep it to Google Talk if you don't want AIM on it. Messages are pushed just like a text message.
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GF texts me to much, need a better solution (iPhone + G1)
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dude, sounds like this lady is a keeper for you...
Pay the extra dough for unlimited texting, and tell her that she needs to tone it down a notch...
If she's just giving you random updates about her day, get her a twitter account, and follow her on twitter. You can check it a couple times a day, and get all her updates at once.
I'm pretty sure there's a way she can set it to private, and only allow you to follow her too,
I'm pretty sure there's a way she can set it to private, and only allow you to follow her too,
At least yours only texts you and you can ignore them for a while citing 'busyness'. Try having to talk on the phone for 5+ hrs because someone just won't stop yapping and needed that 'catchup session'
Women
...and oh yeah...texting plan or you both get a BB
Women
...and oh yeah...texting plan or you both get a BB
I agree, if you can afford the initial purchase of the phone and the monthly data plan, does the cost of unlimited texting really affect you that much in the long run? Besides, now that we have MMS, unlimited texting could be fun with pictures and videos...
I must disagree. Less money affects you more in the long run.
$5/month adds up.. in a year, that's only $60, but in retrospect, if you save that much on many different things, it could save you a lot of money.
Textfree is good, I think. Then again, I use a family unlimited plan.
So an extra $5 bux a month is not practical for unlimited texting? I guess if that is stretching your budget, perhaps another phone/carrier altogether?
I do not think you get it. I think the orginal post would rather drop his text messaging plan down to 200 a month one. That means he saves $10 a month instead of spending $5 more a month (net difference is $15 dollars)
I am with you there. My girlfriend wants to talk for an hour or 2 every night. We do text some but it is limited by the fact that she only has 200 text messages a month plan (I have unlimited though parents family plan). She also does not have a data plan so switching it over to a IM program like BBM is out of the question. We both have blackberry curves but I am the only one who has data.
Kind of stucks but not much I can do about it.
As for the OP I would say try to get her to switch over to an IM program. That would allow you to drop you text messaging down to 200 a month saving you $10.
Are you sure? I was just reading about the app in iTunes and that was saying it doesn't have push.
Um.....GENIUS!!!!
Now I have to strategically come up with a way of convincing her to do this....
Oh and "checking it a couple times a day"... I'm gonna go ahead and not check it at all.
BINGO!!!
I think using an app for your main source of messaging is kind of a pain. My wife and I text all day long (mainly just bsing and stuff) and we come home and still have tons of stuff to talk too. I think it's great you two text each other and still have stuff to talk about.
All this said, just spend the extra $5 and get unlimited. Now I don't know about IMing, but doesn't it eventually sign you off? I just think it's a pain and just do the texting.
All this said, just spend the extra $5 and get unlimited. Now I don't know about IMing, but doesn't it eventually sign you off? I just think it's a pain and just do the texting.
What's the difference between using the Messages app or using an IM app? Why is texting so much better? And I don't know about other IM apps but Beejive keeps you logged in for 7 days if you want to, so if you use it even just once in a while you stay logged in all the time.
It does have Push. That being said I think the Twitter option is better if you can convince her to do it.
I recommend going with Beejive, honestly. If you're worried about getting slammed, make another screenname that only she and/or your close friends know, and it's a non-issue.
If that's the case, why not use Twitter? You can install a free client like TweetDeck that lets you filter out tweets based on the sender, so you will be able to see her tweets (and no-one else's) whenever you choose to open the client app. You could even reply that way, although that doesn't seem to be a necessary feature.
I just never cared for them personally. I know very few people who use IMing now ever since they text now also. It's probably a personal preference.
Look what you should do. The Twitter idea is perfect but there is a way you can convince her even more to use it. Have her make a Twitter account or make one for her, whatever. Then, on your Twitter account follow her account and also subscribe to receive the SMS updates from her as well. Then in front of her have her update her Twitter and show her your phone when you get the text message.
After she sees it's basically the same thing, when your back at home unsubscribe from getting the SMS alerts from her account and your all set.
That way you are using no text messages even though she thinks you are and if you want you can get emails from her updates or check it manually. What do you think?
After she sees it's basically the same thing, when your back at home unsubscribe from getting the SMS alerts from her account and your all set.
That way you are using no text messages even though she thinks you are and if you want you can get emails from her updates or check it manually. What do you think?
Same boat here, my girl has a G1 (I got rid of mine since the recent google vs cyanogen bs, look it up if you care) and what we do is she uses gtalk and I use IM+ (beejive is the same basically) and it does have push. Just make a gtalk account and your all set.
theres several free texting apps, such as textfree unlimited (by free, i mean the texting is free, not necessarily the app). then she just has to save a pin/email address (depending on the app) under your contact card on her phone and text that, and itll be just the same as texting, except itll cost you somewhere between $0-10 one time fee instead of $15 a month
Thats true. I used to live in a 3rd world country (Dominican Republic), extremely poor there, and even then all the incoming texts/calls were free.
I must disagree. Less money affects you more in the long run.
$5/month adds up.. in a year, that's only $60, but in retrospect, if you save that much on many different things, it could save you a lot of money.
Textfree is good, I think. Then again, I use a family unlimited plan.
I agree that money adds up and I too am on a unlimited Family plan. But if we're talking about the overall iPhone demographic, $60 over a year or $120 over two years isn't really going to make a difference in that persons budget. Hell, that's an extra (or one less) Starbucks once a month for most people.
That is coming form some one who never tried to understand budgeting. It is not the big cost that kill you but all the little nickel and dime crap like the $5 extra a month that add up and add up fast.
You add $60 a year to this guys cost instead of trying to find a solution to save him $120 a year. When I was trying to save money I found just cutting little $2-3 thing here and there ended up netting me a way to save an extra 50-100 a month. That is quite a bit of extra change at the end of a year.
You pay $5 for one drink at Starbucks?
I pay $1.50 for a tall drip coffee there. That's $42 saving per year over your budget.