How to text without a cellphone? Use a payphone!

Published on 6 Jul 2006 at 6:38 am. 8 Comments.
Filed under Mobile.

I had an urgent text message to send. But my cellphone battery died.

How do I text without a cellphone?

Use Chikka.com (online javalite version of Chikka is nifty if you don’t want install the program).
Use GoogleTalk.
Maki-suyo. Ask a stranger if you could send an urgent text from her cellphone.
Use a payphone!

That’s right! Use a payphone! But you’ll have to be in Australia to text through a payphone.

In Australia, there are payphones that allow a user to send an SMS message. Drop in the coins, select SMS as the transaction, press the corresponding keys while the LCD display shows your message, then send. I tried it once to send an urgent message to my sister. It worked!

ka edong

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8 Comments to ‘How to text without a cellphone? Use a payphone!’:

Christopher Quijano on 6 Jul 2006 at 4:10 pm: 1

Ka Edong

Good Day!

If i remember correctly, it was already done here with our payphones. I think it was launched with the PLDT payphones before. Even with the SMARTalk payphones you can send SMS messages. Too bad it did not push through.
ka edong on 7 Jul 2006 at 6:17 am: 2

Here in the phils, through payphones? perhaps, I just don’t recall.

I remember PLDT came out with a residential phone that’s wireless and looks like a cellphone. And subscribers can text using that handset.
audienceone on 8 Jul 2006 at 6:54 pm: 3

I do remember that PLDT wireless residential phone being advertised on air.

What happened to that plan?
ka edong on 8 Jul 2006 at 9:44 pm: 4

there was even one PLDT service where you could text pre-assigned messages corresponding to numbers on the keypad.

example:

1 - come home
2 - where are you?
3 - I miss you so

something like that. Didn’t fly. The mobile phone overtook this clanky service
justpassingby on 26 Aug 2006 at 12:30 am: 5

you havn’t seen signs like these on some stores: P5- pa text. P 10- pa charge.

totoo, meron nito
ka edong on 26 Aug 2006 at 12:36 am: 6

talaga? No, I haven’t seen those yet.
dongCals on 12 Oct 2006 at 1:59 pm: 7

ka edong, it’s still possible here in the philippines, through a globelines landline, that is. and that’s if the globelines landline is ‘open’ for ndd calls (meaning hindi ‘locked’). try it out, or siguro first read the phone directory

-dongCals
ka edong on 13 Oct 2006 at 8:27 am: 8

dongcals,
thanks for the tip.