Texting from Macbook to Android Phones using iMessage
I prefer to send/receive texts on my laptop or iPad on wifi, I sometimes don't check my iPhone for hours. Easier to type too.
Of course this works when the recipients are also Apple users. Not when they are Andriod -- I miss multiple messages, and my fat fingers have to peck out replies on my phone.
I've been browsing the message boards to try and find the workaround. There must be a way of entering an Android user's number in my contacts that enables me to message them direct from iMessage on my laptop.
I tried a workaround I found in a thread a year old, but it doesn't work. It gave a list of carriers and how to enter the Android user's number as an email address, in order to reach them through laptop iMessage.
I just tried, for example: XXXXXXXXXX@vtext.com for a Verizon User. But iMessage says "XXXXXXXXXX@vtext.com is not registered with iMessage". Gah.
Any suggestions? Thanks.