If your a SMS junkie but can’t afford, or simply don’t want to pay the
ridiculous data fees for sending text messages, all is not lost.Jeff Carlson at Tidbits has more.

With the release of the iPhone 2.0 software, you can send SMS messages from your iPhone for free. (To clarify, this appears to work only in the United States; Joe Kissell, who lives in France, reports that the following technique does not work with the “+33″ designation there.) The secret is a capability that already exists on your Mac: send it via iChat/AIM. (This technique works on the iPod touch, too, but I’ll just use “iPhone” from here on out to avoid writing “iPhone or iPod touch” over and over.)Read More