Replace Leopard Address Book’s missing SMS feature
For reasons best known to itself, Apple removed the SMS functionality from Leopard’s Address Book.
A new widget emitSMS brings back the ability to send text messages from Dashboard, using the Bluetooth connection on many Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, SonyEricsson and other mobile/cell phones.
The back of the widget includes options for searching the mobile phone field of contacts in your Address Book, enabling long messages, including a read receipt and storing the text messages:
For reasons best known to itself, Apple has restricted the Bluetooth functionality of its iPhone to pairing with headsets, so I can’t test this. And I very happily returned my Treo 680 to the IT Department, so I am out of options. But I have a hunch that if I could test this, it would work well.
emitSMS is donation-ware and is available from the developer’s web site 
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Tags: Address Book, cell phones, Dashboard, Leopard, mobile phones, SMS, text messages, widget
January 18th, 2008 at 3:23 am
Its worth noting the free Yahoo! Messenger for Mac (http://messenger.yahoo.com), which will let you send SMS text messages at no charge and without involving your phone. Recipient replies are routed back into Messenger. (Disclaimer: I work on this product.)
January 18th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Dunno about anyone else out there but for me more often than not my make fails to talk to my Nokia. This happened in the ‘old’ address book sms days as well. I have sent a few messages with emitSMS and love and wish it would work every time. iSync works fine. It seems Address Book to SMS either directly or through a 3rd party app such as emitSMS is hit and miss at best. Anyone?
January 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
That was supposed to say “my Mac fails to talk to my Nokia”
January 19th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I’ve tested it with Motorola’s L7 and several Nokia mobiles: this works great for me, except that I have to enable Dashboard to use it. An app would be appreciated.
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