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Domino’s, Papa John’s and Pizza Hut all let you order pizza’s by text messaging in your order.

First you must register your phone number with the pizza restaurant. When you register you can set up your favorite orders on the website. After that just text the restaurant ( 749hut for Pizza Hut ) and tell it you want to order your favorite pizza ( O FAV )

It doesn’t get any easier than that.

You can also go to Mobile Dominos Website and order or order from the regular websites for Papa John’s and Pizza Hut.

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http://spring.enpocket.com/optout will let you opt out of Sprint’s spam text.

Or more simply, just type ‘END’ as a response to any text message Sprint sends you.

See also:
How to block cellphone spam for all networks

I just had a fishing scam text messaged to my phone.  For goodness sake, if you get a text message telling you to click on a link and log in don’t do it.

This one claimed to be from service@sterilingonline.com.  I don’t have an account with them.

Subject: NOTICE

Your STERLING BANK online service is expired, for renewal please login using ‘www.banksterlingonline.com’ ASAP

The link takes you to www.banksterilingonline.com.  My guess is Bank Sterling does not own that url.

Two hours a day for Starbucks card holders ( with auto reload, be sure to register your card and sign up for auto reloads ) and some special yet to be announced deal for AT&T customers. ( Which is a good thing, Edge is useless you need WiFi for an iPhone to be usable online. )

TMobile customers will keep their access to the Starbucks HotSpots.

SEATTLE and SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 11, 2008 — AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) today announced plans to deliver AT&T Wi-FiSM service at more than 7,000 company-operated Starbucks locations across the United States. The initiative brings together two of the most recognizable global brands to create a powerful and convenient online experience for consumers and business customers. Starbucks and AT&T will offer a mix of free and paid Wi-Fi offerings at Starbucks stores to meet the needs of both frequent and occasional Starbucks Wi-Fi customers.
The initiative further expands the AT&T Wi-Fi network, already the largest in the United States, to more than 17,000 U.S. hot spots and more than 70,000 globally.
Beginning this spring, Starbucks Card holders can enjoy up to two hours of free Wi-Fi service per day at Starbucks locations offering Wi-Fi access, while more than 12 million qualifying AT&T broadband and AT&T U-verseSM Internet customers will have unlimited free access to the Wi-Fi service. In addition, more than 5 million of AT&T’s remote access services business customers will be able to access Wi-Fi service at Starbucks locations. AT&T will soon extend the benefits of Wi-Fi at Starbucks to its wireless customers. . . [ read more More than 12 million AT&T, Starbucks customers to get free WiFi access]

More details here

TUAW is reporting that Starbucks WiFi portals for iPhones are being rolled out

Boy they are coming fast and furious now.

Touch Mobile has a demo browser available.

The Iris Browser is an advanced and versatile application that brings the Web to mobile and embedded devices of virtually any size without impacting the quality or usability of the page. The Iris Browser is fast, secure and user-friendly, having the ability to render full Web pages in resource-constrained environments. In addition, it can be used as a high performance platform for local Web applications, AJAX/Web 2.0 integration and dynamic user interfaces.

The Iris Browser is flexible and adaptable. Its core rendering engine, based on WebKit, is entirely independent from the upper application and user-interface layers, which can be customized to meet specific requirements. In addition, the engine is open source and can be reused in other applications.

This past weekend I purchased an iPhone. I had swore I wouldn’t till they fixed a few things but I needed a new iPod and when I considered the Touch vs iPhone it seemed silly not to get the phone. On some things it is a joy to use but there are some glaring shortcomings I hope will be fixed in version 2. Version 2 is rumored to be arriving this summer with 3G. But that may just be the wishful thinking of many a geek.

If you like to read pdfs and books on your phone you still can’t beat a Palm. It stores your documents and pdfs, the reader is easy to read and remembers where you are located. WM lets you store pdfs and docs but the reader leaves much to be desired. The iPhone will not let you store documents on it. You can store them online by mailing to yourself. But you can only read them when you have a network connection. The pdf reader leaves much to be desired. For any readable sized font you must scroll back and forth.

Palm and WM 3G networks are wonderful. The iPhone Edge network is unusable. When you can get a connection it is slower than your old 2400 baud modem and getting and keeping connections are rare. If you are constantly around WiFi then the iPhone is usable online. Browsing is a joy with the iPhone webpages are easy to read and adjust. But there is no Flash player. Which is a huge drawback considering the number of websites with Flash embedded in them.

Palm is the only one of the three I know that still comes with AIM clients. You can find some for WM but they suck the juice out of your battery and there are not IM clients available for the iPhone.

Mail is fine on all three phones, it is easy enough to set up a poll and use a webmail client. There are no major differences between the phones.

Google maps is a wonderful thing on the iPhone, provided you have WiFi or can connect to Edge. Even on Edge it locates you quickly and downloads maps quickly. Google maps also does location finding on some Palm and WM phones. It just depends on your phone. Windows Live is really ahead of Google maps on the phone and you’ll need a WM phone for that.

The multitasking on a WM phone is wonderful and greatly improves phone usage over Palm and iPhones. There are also thousands of applications available for your WM phone to fill any needs you might have.

The camera on the iPhone is the best cell phone camera I’ve used but no MMS. Which is one of those glaring omissions Apple left out. WM and Palm also are spotty at best on MMS. There are some 3rd party hacks and applications for WM and Palm none for the iPhone.

Using the iPhone is like using a Palm 5 with a Minstrel modem. But you could at least store stuff on your Palm. It is a shame Palm stopped keeping up with the times because until recently they were very much the better of the three phones.

Another glaring omission is the inability to stream radio to your iPhone, you can easily stream internet radio to your WM or Palm phone.

If you spend your time reading pdfs, documents and web browsing Palm is still an excellent choice. There are thousands of applications available to fill your needs. If you want a phone that will let you do several things at once, read some small pdfs or documents WM is a better choice. The multitasking makes working on the phone much nicer and Windows Live is a great tool. If you want to listen to music, audio books and don’t read papers on your phone or use the internet much from your phone chose the iPhone. The battery life on the iPhone puts everyone else to shame.

As I get more familiar with the iPhone I’ll post tips and tricks for those of you like me, not quite ready to jail break it.

NPR Mobile Web and Voice

I’m guessing you’ve already figured out how to listen to radio on your cell phone via the internet. NPR now has a set up where you can call NPR and get your news over the phone.

What is interesting about this when Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone he thought its main use would be for people to call the local opera company and listen to opera over the phone. He thought we’d use it to dial up entertainment. He never saw it as a communication device.   After all this time we are finally starting to use phones as Bell envisioned them.