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The SMS Community - Uboot
A review by wazlee on uboot.com
April 23rd, 2001


Author's product rating:   uboot.com - rated by wazlee

Navigation Satisfactory 
Features Average 

Advantages: free SMS, email, chat
Disadvantages: slow, all black, not always reliable

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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This site is available in three countries - United Kingdom, Austria and Germany. Anybody who havent heard of this site before is that this site is a online community where people chat to each other without giving out your true identity to anybody else. This means that you can chat to other people that are online at the same time as you on the site itself. Also you can send free text messages (SMS) from this site and you can send anonymous messages throught emails and text messages so nobody will find out where or who you are. This can be a bad thing as people can flood your mobile with text messages through your nickname. They dont actually see your mobile number. Hoever you can disable this feature so they cannot forward any messages to your phone.

Te best thing about this site is that it is free and you can save about 10p sending SMS from this site instead of your mobile phone. If nobody knows what SMS is, it is a text that you send to mobile phones that consists of 160 letters and it sends free on this site. You just need to select the right prefix to which country you live in for example in the UK +44

You also get a address book where you can store numbers in so it makes it easier for you to send text messages to people as you dont have to input the number all the time. It doesnt matter what network you are on it still sends perfectly and it does it quickly aswell. When you first sign up it is free so you dont have to pay anything. You choose your own nickname so the pople dont see your really name this is for security.
When it says enter your address it is so that they can send you a starter pack that has a free membership card to show that you are a member of uboot with your username on it just in case you dont remember.This feature have not been working lately so i dont know if they are still doing it or not.

It looks like if you own a one 2 one mobile, you can use all of uboot's advanced features - you can now reply from your mobile to sms text messages received from uboot. you can also send messages to nicknames from your mobile and use the buddylist function! I havent tried this as i havent got a one 2 one mobile.

If you have a Nokia phone however you can personise it by either sending a ringtone or logo to your nokia handset. This is not available to other makes of phones. The problem with this is that you need to pay for this feature, as it requires you to ring up this number that costs about £1 per minute whether you are ringing from a landline or not.

If you dont have a mobile phone you dont need to worry because there are other features aswell (you dont need a mobile to sign up for this site). You can chat to other people online right on the site itself and you use your nickname so your true identity doesnt show up. You can just use this a a normal email serve as you can send and receive emails through your nickname which is just like any other.

Despite all of these features the site is all in black and sometimes it can be slow for the things to load up properly. This site is not always reliable!
 
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