It is possible for just about any cell phone (even for plain featurephones) to send messages to email addresses as well as other mobile phone numbers. The drawback to this is that on reply to a message via email, HTML formatting by default is enabled, which on receive of the phone comes across as mostly gibberish (all the formatting code can be seen).
The workaround to this is that if someone sends you a message via SMS text to your email address is to first switch to plain-text-only, remove the quoted reply (not necessary with texting), write your reply and then send.
The video below shows how to do this with the Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail email systems.
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