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How to send free SMS from my mobile?

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

One of the most oft repeated requests from our users is: How can I send free SMS from my mobile?
Unfortunately there is no easy way of doing so. But constant feedback from our users has led us to this small yet important development.
We have now optimized 160by2 website to be accessed from mobile provided you [...]

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upload SMS messages from your phone that u want to store forever

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

SMS messages are so precious that you want to store them for eternity. we also see these days that after a point the jokes that were hot and being forwarded like crazy lose their “hotness” and become stale. All of us like these cool jokes, sweet SMS from loved ones, or the great quote that [...]

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Sending Same message to many numbers?

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Here is the announcement of a new feature – requested by quite a few of our regular users. Now you can send your  SMS to more than 1 person by just typing in their numbers in the Mobile Number field. The only restriction is that you can have max of 10 recipients for the same [...]

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Lost your mobile? Dont worry, your contacts (alas not mobile) are safe with 160by2

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I recently called up a friend of mine after a long time, to find out if he was doing fine. On being questioned as to why he was out of touch for a long time, he had a ready defence – “I lost my mobile phone (again!). More than the phone I was devastated by [...]

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Share your SMS with other users

Friday, September 21st, 2007

When a group of friends or colleagues meet they often share with others, some of the cool SMS’s that they received. We wanted to bring the same experience online and on 160by2. That way our users share their SMS not just with people they know but with the whole SMS community on 160by2. So we [...]

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New User Interface (UI) – cool as blue

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

now into day 2 with the new UI and we are getting feedback that the new look is better. It took us about a month of designing and re-designing to come up with this new design. we tried to make it simple and intutive as always.
We took utmost care to make the web application easy to [...]

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Are your contact names less than 10 characters long?

Monday, August 6th, 2007

A number of our users have been repeatedly asking us to provide sender name instead of mobile number when displaying the message from 160by2 on your mobile phone. We are pleased to roll out this feature now.
Now if you send a message from 160by2.com to your friend and if she has saved you in her [...]

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5th Aug is Friendship Day – Have you wished your friends?

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Its been some time since we offered a new exciting feature to the users. Its not that we have run out of ideas, just that we have been fine tuning our offerings to make sure we serve you only the best of ideas.
Here is our latest feature – Friendship Template. 5th August is International Friendship [...]

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Inbox – how different is it from your mobile Inbox?

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

As some of you have already noticed, we have introduced a new feature called “Inbox”. In case you have not yet checked it out, have a look at the menu bar – between “Outbox” and “Invites” tab you will see a tab called “Inbox”.
So what is this inbox supposed to do?
Whenever a friend of yours [...]

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“Contacts” is a better name for phone book

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Our users keep telling us that the best thing about 160by2 is that it is so simple to use and we want to keep it that way. Also many of you repeatedly asked us to introduce a phone book feature. We did not like idea of cluttering the page with a contact list as a side [...]

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