Address Book: sms sending

I am having the same problem. At my office the signal of my cell phone is really bad and I found that I was able to receive calls and sms using a bluetooth earphone and my mac ans placing the cell phone in a lucky corner. Now I am looking for an alternate solution. I am really glad that Apple told bout 300 new features, but nobody told the users about the features that tere taken out.
Cheers
Paolo

Yes it seems Apple ditched these functionnalities with 10.5 !

I stumbled on this last week after upgrading the PowerBook. At first I thought I had missed something to get this feature activated, but after looking around and around I had to came to the sorry realization that this feature is no more !

Thanks Apple !! This one was really cool and useful !

I do wonder if Apple has done a deal with Skype to encourage people to do this. Sadly, for me in the UK it is cheaper to send texts from my phone, because I get a bundle of free texts each month. I'm using BluePhoneElite which is good but not as handy as Address Book

Just like Microsoft...... the address book need back the ability to send sms messages.
and so the iphone with no Video ? fill like things going backwads

Same in Ireland - it would be much cheaper for me to send through my normal mobile provider. As everybody else here, I have used this AddressBook feature all the time and impressed my non-Mac colleagues with it. To simply remove such a useful, simple and unobtrusive feature seems like madness. What has happened here?!

This is not just an SMS issue. This applies to all attempts to send info from the Mac to a bluetooth-enabled phone. Given that Apple have seemingly stopped adding phones to iSync the only way to get address book info onto an unsupported phone was to use the very useful "send this card" command in Address book. Now this facility has disappeared. Call me cynical but could it just be that this is an attempt to persuade us to buy an iPhone?

In total agreement, Apples decision to remove this seem ridiculous. The best solution I have found is the EmitSMS widget ( http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/email_messaging/emitsms.html)

This can read your AB contacts without AB being open and sends perfectly (at least it does on O2 in the UK) The only thing missing is the ability to display incoming messages on screen.

Hope this is useful.

Been using this and really like it.
http://mirasoftware.com/BPE2/

I can't agree more - iphone does not support this feature, and so they have disabled other phones. My brother always said i should have shares in apple because i think so highly of them, but this of all the things that have changes in leopard is the one that has made me realise at the end of the day that they are just like all the other companies out there after our cash

The feature ist gone. I'm using emitSMS too as a replacement.

Let's all leave feedback here to ask it back: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Well.... but why does Apple still mention this function on the website?
See: http://www.apple.com/macbook/wireless.html

For the brushed metal look of the address book it refers to 10.4 whick I had up to this monday when I upgraded to 10.5.

It's really a shame and I'm already leaving a feedback to Apple.
Let's just hope this feature returns whith an upgrade.

Maxi.

I tried BluePhoneElite but it just wasn't stable enough for me. I would sometimes have entire conversations before the window finally came up that I had an incoming call, and it crashed very frequently. Dialing from AddressBook also just beachballed for me, and never functioned.

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