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It's
a little ridiculous. The big phone companies want to
charge you how much per month just to send texts to each
other. Those texts probably cost them about 1
cent...per 1 million texts! You get the feeling it's
one of those deals where they'll squeeze you for that
amount as long as they're able to. Yes, there's free
texting apps out there and they're okay (except for the
obnoxious ads you have to put up with) but we're going a
step further towards free texting with the added
advantage of local news and local gossip. In this day
of added features, it's feels a little chintzy just
giving you free text through an app. Let's look at how
to use the Zipper for free text needs on top of your
local news and gossip.
It's
actually pretty simple. When you bring up the Zipper
local news app, you can go in and create a private
channel right away. This channel can be password
protected or open depending on how you set it up. You
can always change this status later on if you like. You
can have as many channels as you like on top of the
default ones that are given such as traffic, news,
gossip, etc. Let's take an example. Let's say you have
a crew that you run around with...another 4-5 people
that drive your parents crazy for an example. You
quickly set up the channel for the crew. Maybe you give
it a alpha numeric login to protect your communication
from eavesdropping siblings, parents, and x's. That's
up to you. You give the password to your friends (the
"Crew") and the name of the channel. They can quickly
scan through the local channels or search for yours.
They can even just enter the password and the channel
will pop right up if it's local. Now, the crew has it's
very own mobile, messaging board with an ongoing history
between the different members. It's such a pain to text
one friend, and then another with the same instructions
of "I'll meet you at the beach around 4, dorks". Now,
you just post it to your "Crew" channel and they all can
check it out. As new messages come and go, you have an
ongoing history and dialog available from your smart
phones (as it should be). There are so many places this
is useful.
Whether it's a business organizing an event, a group of
friends meeting up on Friday, or a high school looking
for the latest party updates once the first one is
busted up, the Zipper and it's free texting boards are
just waiting. Guess what else they're doing. They're
not charging you money, that's for sure. It's all
free. The app itself is even free. It's ridiculous for
you to pay so much each month to the big phone companies
when you we offer you not only texting but message
boarding or 'mexting' as we like to put it (we know, not
very original but we're going with it). It's all free
and it's all yours. Texting, private message boarding,
local news, and local gossip at the touch of your thumbs
through the Zipper app through Itunes or Droid.
Or...you could pay the big phone company more money
towards their gold toilet seats. Your call. |
