AUTO FORWARD MISSED CALLS AND SMS TO EMAIL

You may wonder why would
anyone want to forward text
messages or missed call
notifications to their email
account when the cell phone
is with them all the time?
Won’t these messages add
more noise to an overflowing
email Inbox?
Not so. For instance, some of
my friends work in a
company where, for security
reasons, they aren’t allowed
to carry personal mobile
phones inside though they
do have regular phones at
their desk and are allowed
email access. They would
therefore leave the phone at
home but with auto-
forwarding enabled, they’ll
get an email alert as soon as
someone sends them an SMS
or calls on their cell during
office hours.
Such a feature may also be
handy for people who have
recently switched to a
different phone number and
would like to keep track of all
incoming calls and messages
received on their previous
phone but without having to
carry it all the time.
The Android Market has
dozens of apps that can
bring the auto-forwarding
feature to your mobile phone
but the one that I like most
is SMS2Gmail. It says “SMS”
but the app can forward both
SMS text messages and
missed calls to your email
address. You will get the
complete message text in
your email and the sender’s
name as well provided that
that number already exists
in your phonebook.
It takes just one step to get
it up and running. Launch the
app, provide the credentials
of your Gmail account and
done. It needs the Google
credentials in order to send
email notifications but if that
doesn’t make you too happy,
just create another Gmail
account and set it to auto-
forward messages to your
primary email account.
One more thing.
You turn on email
notifications manually but in a
situation where you have
have forgotten the phone at
home, or have misplaced it
somewhere, you can
remotely activate auto-
forwarding by sending an
SMS from any another phone
to your phone.
The app lets you assign an
Activation Keyword (see
screenshot) and as soon as
a text arrives with that
keyword, the auto-forwards
will be enabled automatically.