Web SMS released

We released a new tool to compliment the mainly mobile Maritex SMS service today, called Web SMS. Web SMS allows you to send SMS messages through the web browser if you have access to a computer using your Maritex account.

You can access Web SMS by first logging in to your account here and then following the link called "Web SMS".

The biggest difference between sending messages via Web SMS and through your mobile email (other than one is through the browser and another via email) is that it is significantly cheaper to send through the browser.

• One, you do not get charged data charges by your carrier like when you send email, if you're the few unlucky ones not on a flat data plan.
  
• And two, the price for sending SMS via Web SMS is 0.9 point, a 10% discount from the usual 1 point when you send your messages via email.

We all also know that when you're in the office or want to write a long message, it's better to use the computer keyboard than typing using your mobile's keypad. The From number in your messages will be set to your SMS number, so replies to your messages will be sent to your mobile.

In the current release, you can only send a message to one person at a time and there are no address book features, which means you have to remember/write the phone numbers (bleah!). Depending on how things go, we will make changes to these to make messaging easier with Maritex.