Our pals at Borange today unleashed Textie for Android, bringing cross-platform text and picture messaging from the land of iOS (they've had something in the neighborhood of 1.6 million downloads from iTunes) to our beloved mobile platform. The port is pretty obvious -- you'll see a lot of iOS-type buttons. Try to get over that, because what you've got is a simple and pretty powerful texting appliation that offers unlimited use. Features include:
- Sends unlimited free messages to any Textie user, email address and most U.S. mobile phones
- Sends high quality photos to other Textie users or to any email
- Installs free on Android, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
- Can be installed on multiple devices simultaneously
- Naturally integrates with your existing address book contacts
- Provides access to server-archived messages
- Uses secure SSL for all connections
- Uses battery-efficient Google C2DM Android push notifications
Textie's also done a great job of explaining in the Market listing all of the permissions it uses, so be sure to read that if you're worried about that sort of thing. We've got download links to the free Textie app after the break.
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