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Group SMS made easy !

There are various cases where you need to send a text message to a group of people - invitations, appointment cancellations, marketing, seasonal greetings to name a few. Many times the solution is needed only a few times and with a short notice. 

Here is how you e.g. inform your customers that appointments for tomorrow are cancelled:
  1.  Install com.ovr.groupmessaginghost to your Android phone
  2.  Install GroupMessaging client on your PC or Mac
  3.  Start both of the applications 
  4.  Connect Android app to the PC 
  5.  Select recipients from your contacts on the PC or paste the list in
  6.  Write & send the group sms message from the PC via your phone
GroupMessaging client: GroupMessaging.jar. Client is an executable jar, so you may need to install Java Runtime: java.com.

For connecting the applications:
  • You need to have both of the devices in same network (e.g. wifi)
  • Wait for or type in the IP address of the PC in the Android app  (address shoud appear automatically in few seconds)
  • Press connect
This picture shows you the tricky part with IP address:
 
 

There are two versions of the GroupMessaging app:
  1. Free version with full functionality (with an ad text in each sms) - you only pay for the SMSs!
  2. Pro version without the ad: com.ovr.groupmessagingpro