Please help an oldman out. One of my sons has a phone that he can receive/send email from. I have a laptop and need to be told, in dummy terms, how I can email him. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Please help an oldman out. One of my sons has a phone that he can receive/send email from. I have a laptop and need to be told, in dummy terms, how I can email him. Any help will be greatly appreciated.


I'm pretty sure (atleast my phone) phones don't have an email account attached to THEM. Rather, they have the ability to access the internet and can GET TO (i.e. www.gmail.com or www.hotmail.com) an email source. So just email your son to his account (i.e. oldmanson@gmail.com) and he should be able to get to it on his phone. Don't know if that helps at all...but worth a try!

Might be a little more helpful if you let us know what cell phone your son has.

http://getitnow.vzwshop.com/index.aspx?id=news_web_how#

is a good starting place if you have a verizon

http://getitnow.vzwshop.com/index.aspx?id=news_web_how#

is a good starting place if you have a verizon

Thanks for the help. All I have is his phone number so just googled and found "TeleFlip", and it at least sounds as if it will work. Waiting to get his number now and then I'll try it and see what happens. I'll let you know how things turn out.

I can send a text message to any one in my family from my computer....Would that help or be the same?

I can send a text message to any one in my family from my computer....Would that help or be the same?

I'm slowly catching on as to what I'm doing. I have a computer and email account, my son has no email account - just a phone number but he can receive/send from it (so he says). I am not a computer geek by any means of the word and as this is new to me I'm just hunting and pecking on how I can email to his phone. I was hoping it would be easy peazy but for me to learn anything about computers - well it just doesn't work out that way. Is it possible to do what I want to do or does he have to have an email account set up? Pretend as if you talking to someone that doesn't know what he's doing and you've reached my level.

I'm slowly catching on as to what I'm doing. I have a computer and email account, my son has no email account - just a phone number but he can receive/send from it (so he says). I am not a computer geek by any means of the word and as this is new to me I'm just hunting and pecking on how I can email to his phone. I was hoping it would be easy peazy but for me to learn anything about computers - well it just doesn't work out that way. Is it possible to do what I want to do or does he have to have an email account set up? Pretend as if you talking to someone that doesn't know what he's doing and you've reached my level.
Have him send you an email from his phone, then you'll know what address to send to. I have a Verizon phone, and I can send and receive messages, via the text messaging feature, to email addresses, and people can "email" me messages. With Verizon, your "email" address is thephonenumber@vtext.com. If I send a picture from my phone to my email, it shows up as thephonenumber@vzwpix.com. He shouldn't have to activate a browser or anything on his phone, he can just send a text message to your email address, rather than a phone number.

Have him send you an email from his phone, then you'll know what address to send to. I have a Verizon phone, and I can send and receive messages, via the text messaging feature, to email addresses, and people can "email" me messages. With Verizon, your "email" address is thephonenumber@vtext.com. If I send a picture from my phone to my email, it shows up as thephonenumber@vzwpix.com. He shouldn't have to activate a browser or anything on his phone, he can just send a text message to your email address, rather than a phone number.

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Have him send you an email from his phone, then you'll know what address to send to. I have a Verizon phone, and I can send and receive messages, via the text messaging feature, to email addresses, and people can "email" me messages. With Verizon, your "email" address is thephonenumber@vtext.com. If I send a picture from my phone to my email, it shows up as thephonenumber@vzwpix.com. He shouldn't have to activate a browser or anything on his phone, he can just send a text message to your email address, rather than a phone number.

Thanks Nickel, it's starting to make a little more sense to me with all the imput I've gotten. My problem at the moment is I can't call him to ask him to email to my address so am waiting to get his phone number from his brother. I'm to cheap to have long distance service. I can email the world but for right now can't communicate with someone living in Hollywood, Md.

If you have Yahoo IM, you can send a text message to his phone from there.

If you have Yahoo IM, you can send a text message to his phone from there.

Vrai, you're a dear but I don't use Yahoo IM. I do at least know what it is but I'd really like to have my rotary phone back before using it. You can teach an old dog new tricks but he isn't going to pick up on them real fast. I never have anything to say that needs an instant response, one reason I'm on on dial-up where emails take 6 hours to get through. I do appreciate your suggestion though and will continue to read SOMD.com. Who knows, perhaps some day I may go premo and read the real juicy stuff.

An old dog can be taught new tricks. Here's how one can email a text message to a phone that will accept them. Simply use their phone number as ###-###-####@TeleFlip.com as their address in your email. TeleFlip says 500 text messages a month for free. Just thought I'd pass it on for anyone else like me that isn't computer savvy.