Strange, we know, but there are things to be found there. Instead, head over to the Skype website and log in. The basic part of the voice message service on Skype is entirely free. You might get prompted to buy Skype Credit to do so, but gnore that. Instead, try your hand at leaving a Voice Message.įirst you’ll need to activate the service. The problem is that recipients tend to think you only just sent it to them and confusion ensues. Instant messages are good but if the person you’re trying to get hold of is offline, what then? Sure, you can still leave them an IM that will pop up when they’re back online. So, the bottom line for SMS from Skype is: if it’s sending a text to someone in the same country as you are, use your mobile phone but, if the other person is abroad, then it’s far cheaper to do it with Skype. The equivalent from Vodafone (to take one of the UK mobile providers at random) is a flat cost of 24p to pay-monthly customers when sending an SMS to any other country in the world from the UK. For example, a text to China costs 3.6p, to the USA 7.1p, India 4.9p, Japan 4.3p, Australia 5.6p. That said, if you’re looking to send SMS to mobiles at international destinations, you’re in luck. Sadly, while Skype offers cheap rates for making voice calls to landlines and mobiles, the cost of sending a text to the UK is rather pricey at 6.4p per message at the time of writing. It’s at this point that you might find you don’t have your contact’s mobile number - or any Skype Credit, for that matter - and you’ll be given the opportunity to enter it manually. Click on it and you’ll discover a second option “via SMS”. Start an IM chat with one of your contacts but, instead of just firing off your message, you’ll see a little drop-down menu just below the message field that reads “via Skype”. Unfortunately, SMS isn’t covered in any of the plans, so it’s a question of buying the credit and paying per text as you go. What you’ll need to do is to buy some Skype credit. Issue number two is that texting someone’s phone from your Skype application costs real money, because it requires using some company’s mobile infrastructure and they tend not to let people do that for free. What you can do, of course, is enter it yourself. The main issue is that it’s not going to work if the contact whom you’re trying to text hasn’t entered their mobile phone number into their Skype profile. Sending an SMS on Skype is fairly easy but it does require a bit of setting up first. That isn’t the end of the messaging story, however, and, as part of Secret Skype on Skype Up Your Life Week on Pocket-lint, we’re going to show you what else you could be doing. Along with Skype calls, Skype-to-Skype IM is a core feature for the millions of users the world over. (Pocket-lint) - Everyone knows about using Skype for its instant messaging abilities.
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