<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9fc101dd-3e31-441d-86e9-a0d2303f6eb8/6193F746-336D-40DD-BC09-3F53F414E220/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough" href="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough" style="font-size: 11px;">lifehacker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough"><H3>Your Non-iPhone Can Do a Whole Lot via SMS</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifehacker.com/img/A28CE3C6-4A11-46E4-8C62-991C6FBB4335" alt="old_verizon_phone3.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough">I send a text message from my plain old flip phone to <A href="http://www.google.ca/intl/en_ca/mobile/sms/index.html">Google SMS</A>—46653 (GOOGLE)—and I get the results usually in less than a minute. If it's a long address, I'll just call 1-800-GOOG-411 and say "text message" to remember it later. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/399619/forget-the-iphonethe-ipod-touch-is-good-enough"><P> <IMG width="158" class="right image158" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/17/2009/07/thumb160x_3b23ef054502684f40c559289023ccb7.jpg" />If I spot a repair shop and remember that my inspection runs out on Friday, I set a to-do in <A href="http://rememberthemilk.com">Remember the Milk</A> via <A href="http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/twitter/">Twitter SMS</A>, by calling <A href="http://www.jott.com/Jott/remember-the-milk.html">Jott</A> if I'm driving, or, if it's more complicated, sending a pre-formatted text to my <A href="http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/sending/emailinbox.rtm">RTM email address</A>. I can also read or edit my <A href="http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37228">Google Calendar agenda</A>, check my <A href="http://lifehacker.com/364633/check-flight-arrival-status-by-phone">flight status</A>, and <A href="http://lifehacker.com/375160/buy-stuff-on-amazon-with-a-text-message">price items on Amazon</A> to avoid impulse buys. You can't swipe, stretch, and pinch this stuff with your fingers, but it's real data, delivered pretty darned fast without the cost of an iPhone data plan. Here are some more <A href="http://lifehacker.com/software/cell-phone/alpha-geek-10-cool-cell-phone-tricks-243276.php">cellphone tricks you can do with a non-iPhone</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6193F746-336D-40DD-BC09-3F53F414E220/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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