Save your SMS online with Treasuremytext

8/01/2008

save SMS onlineWhat fun it will be if you can save your important mobile phone SMS online, so that you can have a look at this some time later in the future. It’s possible with Treasuremytext, whose new version is coming up now. This is a new site that allows you to forward any SMS to a UK number and that appears as a text stream on your Treasuremytext profile page. The page is a la web 2.0 style package complete with AJAX and RSS feed. You can set this text stream to private and there you go, an online storage for your SMS.

At the first glance, this service looks very exciting. I checked out the service with a hope that perhaps it will automatically save all SMS I send receive on my mobile phone. But the fact that i have manually forward every SMS is sort of a disappointment. It dawned to me that perhaps I could do the same with micro blogging sites like Twitter, Jaiku, or Pownce.

Another disappointment is that with the free account, you can save only 5 messages in a day. If you need to save more, you need to cough up EUR18 per year. In this age of free services and when companies are giving away gigabytes of storage space free of cost, this comes as a surprise.

One plus point that Treasuremytext has over Twitter and others could be that it can also save your contacts and you can also send SMS from your account page. Well the service has a loyal fan following across the globe and so there must be something worthwhile. Let’s hope the new version is coming up with some great features that we can truly make good use of.

If you are looking for Treasuremytext invites, leave your email on the comments and I will send you one.

There are 2 comments in this article:

  1. 25/02/2008Katie Lips say:

    Hey Palin,
    thanks for checking out Treasuremytext. I’m interested in your perspective on it. For us it has always been about saving important messages that you have received from other people and not life streaming / personal broadcasting. So the user base is just regular people who like SMS.

    Regarding the Annual subscription fees, well it’s not really about the cost of the storage capacity rather about monetizing a service in a way that enables plenty of people to use a free version but makes sure we offer a full service to those who are heavy users. But that said, we’re using feedback from the Treasuremytext 2.0 beta to help us refine our model. (Watch this space!)

    Thanks for writing abut us!

  2. 20/03/2008Katie Lips say:

    Just to let you know we announced recently that Treasuremytext will be a free service. We will also be making some client apps based on the success of our Treasuremytext for iPhone app. Also the service has recently been updates and all users of the old system moved over to the new site at http://www.treasuremytext.com

    Appreciate your feedback!
    Katie

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