Press and media

Press and media information about Tin Can Smartphone — the product that turns a user’s Android smartphone into an SMS gateway with a documented REST API.

Developers and businesses can send and receive SMS through the phone’s SIM via HTTP — useful for automation, notifications, and integrating SMS into existing backends without a traditional SMS aggregator. Journalists covering developer tools, telecom APIs, or AI agents that need a real phone number can use this page as a starting point.

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Tin Can Smartphone (www.tincansmartphone.com) is a product of Albrecht Apps GmbH (Quakenbrück, Germany). The service pairs a cloud backend with an Android companion app so that SMS traffic flows through the user’s own handset and SIM. The brand name is “Tin Can Smartphone”; the legacy name “SMS-Api-Gateway” may still appear in older materials.

Quick facts

• Product: Tin Can Smartphone — Android SMS REST API gateway
• Company: Albrecht Apps GmbH, Quakenbrück, Germany
• Website: https://www.tincansmartphone.com
• App page: Android companion download and overview

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