Send Longer SMS From your Mobile Phone Using 160by2 App
A lot of you have been requesting us for longer message length. Yes, we have heard you and have been working on this. Today, we are launching an application for mobile phones that are supported by Symbian third and fifth editions. This will let you send 145 character long SMSes from the convenience of your mobile phone.
This has not been a quick fix solution to the character length requirement. Instead, we have worked to provide you with an application that shall serve as an interface that shall help you integrate your mobile phone messages folder with our 160by2 platform. Here are some things that you can now do with the new 160by2 app:
Send 145 character long SMS for free internationally to all countries we currently support
Access your native phonebook on your mobile phones while selecting contacts to send message
Access your native message inbox and sent folders to forward or reply to messages for free through 160by2.com
One click solution to upload your native phonebook contacts to 160by2.com – You wouldn’t need another place to backup all your contacts details
Access 160by2 template messages from the app
The interface has been created to match the look and convenience of your native mobile phone message folder. Next time your friend messages you, you don’t have to find a computer to visit our WAP site. Just click reply and send longer SMS from 160by2 for free!
DOWNLOAD APP NOW: Visit http://m.160by2.com/app from your mobile phone to start using the application
Here are a few screenshots for the app
Mobile Phones Supported by 160by2 App:
160by2 @ Ad Tech, Singapore
Ad Tech is one of the premier events for digital marketing. It is an interactive advertising and technology conference where you have established players from the area of interactive marketing converging at one place. It is also a place to showcase your product to the audience from this field.
160by2 will be showcasing its service this year at the Ad Tech event in Singapore. It will be held on the 9th and 10th of June at Sun Tec City convention center in Singapore. If any of you guys are going to be there at around the same time, do make it a point to visit and say a Hi to us. It is always great to meet our lovable users.
See you there!
Sprite Kholega Toh Milega With 160by2
160by2.com is proud to announce the launch of the Sprite “Kholega toh Milega” contest on our website. This gives you the opportunity to win lots of prizes and an opportunity to meet the Badshah of Bollywood!
There is nothing much to do, actually. Enjoy your favorite Sprite, and once done look beneath the cap for a nine digit code. Alternately, if you drinking from the pet bottles, unwrap the labels and check out the code. Then, visit the 160by2′s Kholega toh Milega page and enter the code along with your mobile number and submit.
And what do you win for this? A Nokia Mobile phone every single hour! The luckier among you also get to meet the Bollywood heart throb, Shahrukh Khan and members of the Kolkata Knight Riders team. So, what are you waiting for? Get Winning!!
Multinational, Multilingual and a Multimillion Userbase!
It is such a joy to see our website grow from where we started two years ago to where it is headed now. We have had a multidimensional growth in this period. Today, 160by2 is announcing the registration of its 4 millionth user. This has been a good growth story since we launched close to two years back. As we look back, we see that we have covered quite a lot of milestones that make us happy and contented at what we have achieved so far.
But that does not mean our hunger to create more and more things for our users we love so much has decreased. Today, we also want to announce that, for the first time ever, 160by2 is now available in Arabic to our Kuwaiti users. Now as we expand our horizons more and become available to different people from different nationalities, expect us to come up with more such improvisations. All said, one thing we realize is 160by2 wouldn’t be here if not for wonderful people like you, and that’s the greatest motivation for us to keep innovating.
Now we are Multinational (as we are present in India, Singapore And Kuwait) , Multilingual (We are available in English and Arabic) and Multimillionaire in terms user base (now we have more than 4 million users).
PS: The 160by2 team has been reading your comments. We are trying to get connected to many more countries. Keep tuned to our blog as we announce them.
Sending Free SMS Using 160by2 – What You Need To Know
Recently we let you know about our launch in Singapore and Kuwait. Starting today, we have got the users in all these three countries connected. This means that Indian users can send SMS to Kuwait and Singapore, Singaporean users can send SMS to India and Kuwait and Kuwaiti users can do so to their friends in India and Singapore.
So how do you go about this. I hope the following pointers will help you in getting started:
The rule is very simple. For sending sms within your country just type in mobile number, for sending sms to friends out of country enter mobile number prefixed with country code.
INDIAN USERS
Sending SMS to India : Enter the 10 digit mobile number in the Mobile number field. (eg: 9012345678)
Sending SMS to Kuwait : Enter the 8 digit mobile number prefixed with country code 965 (eg: 96561234567)
Sending SMS to Singapore : Enter the 8 digit mobile number prefixed with the country code 65 (eg: 6591234567)
SINGAPOREAN USERS
Sending SMS to India : Enter the 10 digit mobile number prefixed with country code 91 (eg: 919012345678)
Sending SMS to Kuwait : Enter the 8 digit mobile number prefixed with country code 965 (eg: 96561234567)
Sending SMS to Singapore : Enter the 8 digit mobile number only (eg : 91234567)
KUWAITI USERS
Sending SMS to India : Enter the 10 digit mobile number prefixed with country code 91 (eg: 919012345678)
Sending SMS to Kuwait : Enter the 8 digit mobile number only (eg: 61234567)
Sending SMS to Singapore : Enter the 8 digit mobile number prefixed with the country code 65 (eg: 6591234567)
Time to change the title of this blog to include Kuwait and Singapore 
160by2 goes global – reaches KUWAIT
That one thing we had been fervently working on, and what you had always been asking for is now here! 160by2 has taken its first steps towards becoming an international website! Starting 26th February – the Liberation Day of Kuwait, 160by2 opened its registrations to Kuwaiti users. That also means that our existing users from India will be able to send SMS to their friends in Kuwait and vice versa.
So, here are some pointers to help you in getting started in sending international SMS with 160by2 :
How do Indian users send SMS to friends in India?
That’s not changing. Continue the same way you have been sending SMSes. If your friend’s number is 90123XXXXX, simply enter 90123XXXXX in the ‘Mobile Number‘ field and proceed.
How do Indian users send SMS to friends in Kuwait?
Kuwaiti mobile numbers are 8 character long. You will have to prefix the country code of Kuwait (965) in front of the mobile number to send the SMS. If your Kuwaiti friend’s number is 9123XXXX, then you need to enter 9659123XXXX in the ‘Mobile Number‘ field.
How do Kuwaiti users send SMS to friends in Kuwait?
For users registered with a Kuwaiti number, sending SMS to friends inside Kuwait is simple. Simply enter the 8 digit mobile phone number to proceed. If your friend’s number is 9123XXXX, simply enter this in the ‘Mobile Number‘ field.
How do Kuwaiti users send SMS to friends in India?
Users registered with a Kuwaiti mobile number, you will have to add the India country code (91) before the mobile phone number. If your friend in India has the mobile number 91234XXXXX, then enter 9191234XXXXX in the ‘Mobile Number‘ field.
Hope this answers your queries. Our venturing into Kuwait is the first step towards a long journey ahead. Keep checking back as we add more countries in the months ahead. Till then enjoy Free SMSing!
160by2 Now In Singapore!
Great news from the 160by2 team here at Hyderabad. We are spreading our wings further and are now launching our free SMS service in Singapore! Here on, our users in Singapore users can send SMS inside Singapore and also to their friends in India. But those Indian users who want to send SMS to their friends in Singapore shall have to wait for some more time. We have not got there yet.
Here are a few things you should know to get started:
How do Singapore users send SMS to friends in Singapore?
Simply enter the 8 digit mobile number on the number field, enter your text message and SEND! Eg: If your Singapore friend’s mobile number is 81234567, simply enter this number on the number field.
How do Singapore users send SMS to friends in India?
Prefix the India country code (91) with the 10 digit mobile number on the mobile number field. Everything else remains the same. Eg: If your Indian friend’s mobile number is 9123456789, enter 919123456789 in the Mobile number field to send the message to your Indian friend.
Enjoy Free SMS forever!
160by2 – The Most Used Internet SMS Portal!
The laurels just keep coming. After being awarded the Website of year 2008 (ISP/Telecom), and our parent company included by Deloitte in their 2008 list of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in India and 500 fastest growing tech companies in Asia Pacific, we have now been recognized as the most used PC-to-Mobile Text Messaging service in India by Juxt Consult, India’s leading Online research company.
According to this recent report released by Juxt Consult, 21% of their respondents used 160by2.com, which is the highest among the websites operating in this domain.
Users like you have made 160by2 what it is today, and it is a moment of gratitude and reassurance to see ourselves being recognized as the most used Internet SMS portal.
The IPL Carnival is Back!
The most awaited event of the year is here. IPL 2009 kicks off in South Africa in a few hours from now. As die hard lovers of the game ourselves, we are launching an IPL section for the cricket lovers on 160by2. Check the IPL schedule, browse through the various facts and trivia of the different IPL teams, have fun answering polls, check out the players to watch out in the different teams all in the new IPL section!
And that’s not it. Discuss the match as it happens on the IPL blog. Discuss, debate and support your team at the IPL blog. This is surely a place for you to show where your loyalties lie, isn’t it!! Click below on your team page to read all that you needed to know!
First time ever in the history of WAP – Arabic SMS
Close on the heels of setting our footprints outside India in Kuwait comes another exciting landmark from our 160by2 team. You can now send SMSes in not only English, but launching as we are talking, in Arabic as well! It is said that necessity is the mother of invention, and when we decided to get global, we realized that this milestone comes with the challenge to incorporate the ability to send SMS in multiple languages, and so we are here – launching multi-language SMS on WAP. Here are a few screenshots:
PS : We believe, from our research, that this is the first ever multi-language supported SMS portal on WAP. If you believe this is wrong, kindly let us know.
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