JaxtrSMS - UNLIMITED FREE MESSAGING APPLICATION

JaxtrSMS, a mobile application that allows users to send unlimited free text messages to any other phone anywhere in the world, was launched by Sabeer Bhatia,owner of Hotmail.com today.

Jaxtr has a unique advantage of that a mobile user can send a text to any mobile phone in the world without requiring the receiver to have the application installed on phone. This “open” facet of JaxtrSMS distinguishes it from other free mobile messaging applications where messages can only be sent within a closed network to people who also have the same app installed like Whatapps, Kik Messenger.

Sabeer Bhatia, CEO & Co-Founder, Jaxtr Inc. and Co-Founder of Hotmail, said at the event, “15 years ago, we gave you Hotmail.com, the world’s first webmail service that freed up e-mail from the confines of the desktop and aided the creation of a global communications network which was completely open and free for users. 

Today, we present JaxtrSMS which does to SMS what Hotmail did for e-mail. Now, mobile users can leverage our free and open application to send messages to their contacts anywhere across the world without having to pay anything. The fact that our application has been downloaded by users across 197 countries in just a few weeks since our soft launch amply reflects our belief that JaxtrSMS will prove to immensely useful to mobile users across the world.”

Yogesh Patel, President & Co-Founder, Jaxtr Inc., commented, “JaxtrSMS was completely developed in India. I am proud to showcase this as an example of Indian innovation and ingenuity.”

The application after download:-

•  Asks you to Sign up with your name and phone number
•  Android, your phone number is verified by sending a self SMS & In i-Phone they send you a verification link by SMS to your phone.
• Once the phone is verified, the inbox looks very much like the native inbox in Operating System
• Select a recipient from address book and send a message.
• At the server the application determine whether the recipient is on Jaxtr or not.  If the recipient is “Not on Jaxtr”, then an SMS is sent (from a US number) with the message text along with a snippet to download jaxtr on the phone.
•  If the recipient is on Jaxtr then of course the message is sent directly to the user’s inbox

The application is a good product, but we will still like you to use and share your opinions.