Phone to send to a SMS message to a group

Hi

A club of which I am a member is wanting to do a weekly text message
to their members. It seems the best way to do this is to get a
contract with a reasonable number of bundled texts, with cashback from
someone like e2save.

To make this work well, however, we are looking to find a phone which
allows you to send an sms message to a group of contacts (in fact
every contact) easily - that is without having to select every
individual contact every time.

Are there any phones that people know of that have this kind of
facility - perhaps the ability to allocate contacts to a group,and to
send a text message to this group?

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!

Thanks in advance

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:08:29 -0800 (PST), MThornfield@googlemail.com
wrote:

>Hi
>
>A club of which I am a member is wanting to do a weekly text message
>to their members. It seems the best way to do this is to get a
>contract with a reasonable number of bundled texts, with cashback from
>someone like e2save.
>
>To make this work well, however, we are looking to find a phone which
>allows you to send an sms message to a group of contacts (in fact
>every contact) easily - that is without having to select every
>individual contact every time.
>
>Are there any phones that people know of that have this kind of
>facility - perhaps the ability to allocate contacts to a group,and to
>send a text message to this group?
>
>Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
>
>Thanks in advance

Looking at my Sony Ericsson W300i it appears to have the ability to
put all my contacts in to a group then,if you wish,send a text message
to that group or any other one if you have more than one group.

<MThornfield@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:e33fd78e-4fc9-4fe2-9e91-bb2309ed93eb@m62g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi
>
> A club of which I am a member is wanting to do a weekly text message
> to their members. It seems the best way to do this is to get a
> contract with a reasonable number of bundled texts, with cashback from
> someone like e2save.
>
> To make this work well, however, we are looking to find a phone which
> allows you to send an sms message to a group of contacts (in fact
> every contact) easily - that is without having to select every
> individual contact every time.
>
> Are there any phones that people know of that have this kind of
> facility - perhaps the ability to allocate contacts to a group,and to
> send a text message to this group?
>
> Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance


Nokia E65. It is intended to be a 'business phone' but many of the
features are useful to anyone - though I can't say that I have found a use
for the Group/Team functions!

--
Michael Chare

MThornfield@googlemail.com wrote:

> A club of which I am a member is wanting to do a weekly text message
> to their members. It seems the best way to do this is to get a
> contract with a reasonable number of bundled texts, with cashback from
> someone like e2save.

Wouldn't a PC/web-based solution be better and potentially cheaper, if
you're considering buying a phone/contract especially to do it with?

Don't know - but worth looking into - maybe others know more?

BTW cashback deals definitely seem to be on the wane now - high value
ones at least.

David