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textPlus, a new iPhone and iPod Touch app for SMS, is a free alternative to users’ available data plans to send free and unlimited texts to individuals and groups. This new tool can help school and college kids to stay better connected with their friends, social groups and family in the way they like best: through texting.

 

textPlus leverages GOGII’s messaging platform to bring real text to the iPod touch and free group texting to the iPod touch and the iPhone (News - Alert). The textPlus application is available for free from Apple’s App store and standard message rates apply only if the user chooses optional notifications.

 

Scott Lahman, CEO and co-founder of GOGII, said that campus life is all about students connecting with each other, sharing conversations and working together to learn new information.

 

The new group conversation feature in the textPlus makes texting more beneficial as a communications tool for any campus group. Students can use their mobile devices to have text-based conversations that include everyone in their important social groups instantly.

 

The app not only brings real SMS to iPhone and iPod touch but also supports group chat and landscape mode for writing, for U.S. numbers only. textPlus is easy for students to use and brings similar group messaging features to mobile devices previously found only on laptops and computers.

 

All users have to do is install the ad-supported application then they can then open it up, click the familiar compose option to select a contact and start texting away. The message is sent over WiFi (News - Alert) and appears as an SMS messag. Users can either wait for a response or continue to newer chats and view updates.

 

The new texting system offers unlimited text messaging and instant group conversations that can quickly keep college students up-to-date on important information from their social and academic networking circles.