You can call your provider and have them turn texting off.
Pete
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Woody <waterk9@...> wrote:
>
> Problem we're having with a phone this one on a prepaid plan, is even
> though it's connected to google voice and all those features, people can
> text/sms directly to the phone's basic number. This is spam type stuff.
> Runs up charges. Hard to block text msgs, as like email spam they come
> from a million directions.
>
> As a result have been trying to figure out if the other iPhone on
> Verizon can block certain or all texting. Hard to find info about on the
> site. Any pointers?
>
>
>
> On 5/27/2012 9:42 AM, Charles Carroll wrote:
> >
> > Google Voice can forward to iPhone so can be used to add features to
> > iPhone that it normally does not have.
> >
> > Calls => Google Voice => use cool features to block => other calls
> > head straight to iPhone
> >
> > You could even transfer iPhone number to Google voice and then have
> > new iPhone number so all people with your current iPhone number would
> > get a pass through GV for many nifty features as it rang on your new
> > iPhone #
> >
> > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Twenty pearls <akaivyleaf@...
> > <mailto:akaivyleaf@...>> wrote:
> >
> > You miss the point of the thread I see. The question is about the
> > disadvantage I see with the iPhone, that being blocking numbers
> > FROM THE PHONE. Your solution of Google voice still points people
> > away from the iPhone, thus I guess you agree with my defined
> > disadvantage of the iPhone. Thanks for confirming that the iPhone
> > can't do this alone. The Android can :)
> >
>
