Hi Ray, It will send as an iMessage whether you are sending to an email address or a mobile number. The key is that the receiver must have enabled iMessage as well and that he registered which email address or addresses they want to use to receive iMessages (or, for that matter, Facetime calls). If you have an iPhone your mobile number and I believe your apple ID email is automatically enabled if you turn on iMessage and you can add more. It's pretty straight forward, just check out the Messages area in the Settings app. Here you can also indicate what you want to use as the default sender information, e.g. you can use your mobile number on a iPhone, but you can also change that so that if a message is sent as an iMessage, it automatically shows up as being sent from your email address. This could be useful if you have an unlocked iPhone and travel to countries where you might buy a local SIM. This way if you send an iMessage to somebody it would show up as coming from your email address rather than some strange international number.
Basically the same rules apply to Facetime calls. Keep in mind that Facetime will become a lot more interesting when iOS 7 comes out since Apple announced in June that in iOS 7 you can choose to do audio only Facetime calls. In fact, I read somewhere or maybe I heard it on a Podcast that there is going to be an actual Facetime app in iOS 7 which looks very much like the phone app in that you can add people to a Favorites list as either regular Facetime or audio only Facetime. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray T. Mahorney Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 4:40 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: setting up for I message I'm assuming it sends as an I Message if it sees an email address? Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris H Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:23 To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: setting up for I message Ray, you can't tell your device to send as an iMessage or sms message; the device is smart enough to know this. To set it up in the first place, go to settings, messages, then set iMessage to on. On 23/08/2013 10:52, Ray T. Mahorney wrote: > What do I need to do to set up for I Message and how do I tell the > device to send as an I message or a text message? > > > Ray T. Mahorney > WA4WGA > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
