Last night it was a nice conversation with friends an interesting question:
How can someone inform the easiest way out of the office in a meeting someone via text is a very urgent matter?

There have been many suggestions:

  • E-mail:
    was abgeleht, because then you look more at his display, as the discussion follows
  • separate twitter account for "alarm":
    For most applications, although you can enter on the mobile device to multiple accounts, which, however, still shows all messages and produce the same problem as in the e-mail

This much I have an old feature of the GSM network, type: SMS
It can be as high as 20 characters (160 characters) more than send a Twitter message. That would be too cumbersome, however, since one would then indeed so complicated to write the message with the phone. I could not refute, however, because all major network operators the "e-mail as SMS."

However, this must first be activated, because this feature is not enabled by default:

  • T-Mobile: SMS with "OPEN" to "8000"
  • Vodafone: SMS with "OPEN" to "3400"
  • E-Plus: SMS with "START" to "7676245"
  • O2: Text "+ OPEN" to "6245"

Minor drawback to this service:
Receipt of such a message will cost the recipient 19, or 20 cents per message. As it should be in the task to a very urgent matter, would pay the whole determined.

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