Verizon wireless - Can I use the LG vx5200 as a pager?

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Can I use the LG vx5200 as a pager?

jtpryan@gmail.com

2006-08-18, 10:33 am

My family all have the 5200. Now, I can take the option in VM to send
a phone number to the phone and it shows up like a page. But I have to
be in VM in order to do this. Is there a way to do the same thing, but
without going into the receiver's VM first? I know I could send a text
message, but I want to have my number displayed on their phone.

-Jim

JoshIII

2006-08-18, 10:33 am

<jtpryan@gmail.com> wrote in message ...
> My family all have the 5200. Now, I can take the
> option in VM to send a phone number to the phone
> and it shows up like a page. But I have to
> be in VM in order to do this. Is there a way
> to do the same thing, but without going into the
> receiver's VM first?

JoshIII responds:
Paging is a function of Verizon VoiceMail.

Sounds like you don't know the receiver's
phone number.

Is it you only know the receiver's phone email address
and you're trying to figure out a way to
alternatively page them, so they will think its a page,
call you back, then you will get their phone number
without asking?

Clever! :)

> I know I could send a text message, but
> I want to have my number displayed on their phone.
>

You're number *IS* displayed on the
receiver's From: listing (Inbox) when you send
them a text message from your phone.

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jtpryan@gmail.com

2006-08-21, 10:33 pm

JoshIII wrote:
> <jtpryan@gmail.com> wrote in message ...
>
> JoshIII responds:
> Paging is a function of Verizon VoiceMail.
>
> Sounds like you don't know the receiver's
> phone number.
>
> Is it you only know the receiver's phone email address
> and you're trying to figure out a way to
> alternatively page them, so they will think its a page,
> call you back, then you will get their phone number
> without asking?
>
> Clever! :)
>
>
>
> You're number *IS* displayed on the
> receiver's From: listing (Inbox) when you send
> them a text message from your phone.

Sorry, nothing so devious. All I want to do is page my wife or sons
to call me. My wife will never get the text message thing, so I just
want to put my number on her screen. I don't want to ring her and wait
for VM to do it, she works in a hospital.

-Jim

rocxspam

2006-08-21, 10:33 pm

jtpryan@gmail.com wrote:
> JoshIII wrote:
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> Sorry, nothing so devious. All I want to do is page my wife or sons
> to call me. My wife will never get the text message thing, so I just
> want to put my number on her screen. I don't want to ring her and wait
> for VM to do it, she works in a hospital.
>
> -Jim
>
My wife is fairly obvlivious to most of the bells'n'whistles on her cell
phone (Nokia 3589i, so that's not many ;-), but she has no problem
figuring out to push the button that is indicated to show a text message
when I have sent her a few. She is a 1st grade teacher, so there is a
similar need to occasionally deliver a message asynchronously that she
can view when time permits. The subject that first appears can easily
be "Call home/xxx-xxxx - Hubby".

Try it out with her in a few practice "runs".

HTH,
ROC

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