How to initiate/send SMS from a HTML5 webpage using devices native functions?

Question

I am wondering how can I open the send SMS application by using a web control of a HTML5 page on Android and iPhone. I want to use the device native SMS sending app, with a prep

Answer 1

Further to other answers I can confirm that smsto:555:bodytext does not work on an iPhone running iOS5.

What does work (and I've tested it) on Android is the format:

sms:444?body=hello

Example:

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On iPhone the ?body=hello will prevent it working at all, and you should use just sms:555 instead.

sms:555

Example

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