Did you know your smartphone can send and receive FAXes?

Occasionally Brian or I are asked to fax something.  We no longer have a fax machine although some printers provide that function, I thought this was a great article on using your smartphone as a fax for the occasional fax.  The recommendations of apps are from Rick. There are also free apps.
​~ Carol Bondy

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Back in the days before the Internet became ubiquitous it was common to use FAX machines to send documents to distant recipients if they needed those documents right away.

Today, most “immediate” correspondence is sent via email, but believe it or not, many businesses and government agencies still make heavy use of FAX machines even though we’re well into the Internet era.

That’s why there might actually come a time when you’ll need to send and/or receive a FAX or two yourself.

You could always buy yourself a FAX machine (or a multifunction printer that has FAXing capability built into it) and connect it to a landline phone connection, but that’s a huge heap of overkill just for sending or receiving a FAX once in a blue moon.

A much better and cheaper alternative is to install a good FAX app on your iPhone or Android phone and use that to send and receive your FAXes instead.

There are several really good FAX apps to choose from. Just open your phone’s applicable app store and search for the term fax and they’ll pop right up.
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Pick one that has great user reviews and install it and you’ll be all set the next time you need to send or receive a FAX.

There are several FAX apps available in both the Apple and Google Play app stores. While some of them are free, unfortuantely the best ones aren’t unless you want to just send an occasionaly one-page FAX.
In my humble opinion, Simple Fax is the best FAX app for Android smartphones and tablets.
Have an iPhone or iPad? I recommend that you check out SimpleFax (yep – same name, but different app).