New cingular wireless pcs email to text

A blast from the past!

New Cingular Wireless PCS (now known as AT&T) allowed you to send emails to text messages, also known as "email-to-text" or "SMS-to-email" functionality. Here's how it worked:

Sending emails to text messages:

  1. You had a New Cingular Wireless PCS email address (e.g., [email protected]).
  2. You could send an email to this address from your email client (e.g., Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail).
  3. The email would be converted to a text message and sent to your mobile phone.
  4. The recipient would receive the text message on their mobile phone.

Receiving text messages as emails:

  1. You could also receive text messages as emails on your computer or email client.
  2. When you received a text message, it would be converted to an email and sent to your email address (e.g., [email protected]).
  3. You could then read and respond to the text message from your email client.

This feature was convenient for those who wanted to manage their text messages from their computer or email client, or for those who didn't have a smartphone or preferred to use a feature phone.

Keep in mind that this feature is no longer available with AT&T's current services, as they have transitioned to more modern messaging platforms like SMS, MMS, and RCS.