Identi.ca SMS Support Chart - Can You Help?

by Marina Martin | Filed under: Identi.ca Tips

I’d like to make a chart of which mobile service providers handle Identi.ca messages seamlessly, and which do not.

If you’ve used Identi.ca over SMS, can you please share in the comments which provider you used, which phone, and how the process works?

Here are two entries to get you started:

Verizon Wireless
Blackberry 8830
SMS works seamlessly - all messages come from the same address (XXXXXXXXXX@laconi.ca), so they thread, and I can respond to any message by simply replying to the message on my phone. I cannot tell the difference between “real” SMS messages and Identi.ca messages.
Verdict: YES

AT&T
iPhone (1st gen)
SMS is annoying - messages come from different numbers, so they don’t thread, and you cannot reply to the number and have it post a message. [The different numbers should all tie back to the same reply address at AT&T, but this does not appear to function properly.]
Verdict: NO

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Tags: Identi.ca, Laconica, SMS

First posted on August 15, 2008

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exador23 4 months ago 1 point
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Verizon
old LG phone.

can send message from phone to yahoo mail.
can send message from yahoo mail to identica.
can NOT send message from phone to identica.

it makes no sense. but it does not work for me.

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http://identi.ca/exador23

squinky 4 months ago 1 point
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T-Mobile
iPhone (1st gen; jailbroken)
Messages must be sent using email client. SMS-to-mail not available. Inbound SMS messages all come from different IDs, so no threading or replying.
Verdict: NO

T-Mobile
old Motorola phone (v95, I think)
Inbound messages thread fine. SMS-to-mail gateway works with no trouble. Everything works beautifully.
Verdict: YES

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http://identi.ca/squinky

Marjolein Katsma 4 months ago 1 point
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I'm in the Netherlands, my mobile phone provider is Vodafone. As with many (probably most) providers in Europe, SMS-over-email is NOT possible (either way). Which means no SMS with identi.ca, not even post-only (which I can still do with Twitter).

To use SMS to post to identi.ca I'll have to post to my (specially-set-up) Twitter acount, have a (still-to-be-written) agent pick up and parse my SMS posts, and sent that to identi.ca via its API - possible, but ugly.

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http://identi.ca/marjoleink

Lohan 4 months ago 1 point
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This is nor an answer to your question. But I do not understand what is this "SMS over email". Never heard of it before identi.ca came to existance

I am a very non tech person and I felt very comfortable about twitter SMS which only asked our phone number. But here it asks for our mobile carrier.

I tried emailing identi.ca admin letting them know about my mobile service provider. So far it is not added.
http://www.dialog.lk/en/index.html

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http://identi.ca/lohang

Hannes 4 months ago 1 point
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I'm using identi.ca in Austria over T-Mobile Austria. The mailaddress is correctly implemented, but the problem on receiving is, that on "first contact" T-Mobile sends a PIN to the sender which should be used in all further mails to the mobilephone address. Cause of that the first SMS (like verification) won't be sent to the phone.

PINs will be invalidated after 60 days of inactivity.

In Europe sms2mail functioniality is mostly available but no one hardly uses it.

Hope that helps. :)

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http://cyberkov.at/

Chris Heath 4 months ago 1 point
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I tested setting up SMS on my Moto SLVR L6 and it worked like a charm. (AT&T)

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http://blog.chrisheath.us

Chris Heath 2 months ago 1 point
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I've now got an iPhone and it looks like email is the best way on an iPhone.

by now there must be a laconica iPhone app
http://www.google.com/search?q=laconica+iphone+app

i have heard of LaTWiT or something but i do believe it's not a free app

so what else?
anyone? anyone?
beuler?

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http://blog.chrisheath.us