TextAway.com - Text Friends For Free

This text message portal can store your mobile contacts, send text messages quickly from the user"s contact tree, receive replies via mobile phone, email or their own text message inbox. Also, it has a cool mobile invitation feature where you can send out text message invitations and receive RSVP"s to find out who is attending their event.

In their own words

In a quest to bring web users an all-inclusive site for text messaging, we would like to introduce TextAway.com. Our goal is to offer users a no-hassle approach in text messaging friends, family and work colleagues. Users can message instantly by visiting our website. There is no need for you to know what mobile phone provider the recipients use; our system takes care of that for you. All you have to do is type in the 10 digit mobile number(s) and your friends and family will receive the message within seconds. The sender can choose to have replies routed back to their mobile phone, email, or TextAway Inbox (for registered users). It is totally free and convenient to use! Give your thumbs a break from messaging on your mobile phone and visit our site for a seamless messaging experience. TextAway.com offers more innovative features if you wish to register. Once again, registering with the site is 100% free. The goal of TextAway.com is to offer a bundle of mobile messaging functions that is unmatched by other websites. We offer our users a quick and easy approach to stay in touch with the people they care about. Give your thumbs a break, text with ease and text for free at TextAway.com!

Why it might be a killer

This site has some innovative features that other SMS portals don"t offer. Unlike the SMS portals of the major mobile providers, you can receive replies to your messages in a number of ways. I also don"t need to know if the person I"m texting has Verizon or Cingular which is nice to be able to text everyone from one site.

Some questions

Does this website work globally? It would be nice to have this when traveling abroad so you don"t have to expend $.25 or $.50 every time you send a text message. How will this make money?