text messaging app

[jman2k7live]

Hi, I have a droid x and I am about to cancel my verizonwirelss contract and move to virgin mobile because it is getting too expensive... My question is, is there an app that lets people text my virgin mobile phone but also get them on my droid x (no service, connected to wifi)?

[crowax]

Would this new phone be a smartphone as well?

I know of text apps for the iphone/ipod that give you a number and the app receives texts when on wifi. I never looked into them for android. But Im almost positive google voice would work. If you havent used it, you register a google voice number and texts to that number are pushed to the app. This would work for wifi and cell. If your new phone is not a smart phone, I'm not positive how you would pull this off. You can have your google voice number be your phone number, so your texts to that number would to go the wifi phone. But on a non-smart phone I do not know if texts would still go to it.

[jman2k7live]

thanks for the response I'll look into it. The phone I will be getting will probably not be a smartphone because my friend is giving me one of his spare virgin mobile phones.