2 Many Txt Msgs Bad 4 Yr Health, Italian Docs Say

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/050124/15/sq64.html">http://au.news.yahoo.com/050124/15/sq64.html</a><br /><br /><i>"Excessive text messaging may be bad for you, or at least for your fingers. That's what some Italian doctors think. They are telling people, particularly the young, that furious typing on mobile phones could lead to acute tendonitis."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2005/20050124-smsbad4health.jpg" /><br /><br />One of the many things I really like about the Pocket PC Phone Edition is SMS with a stylus. :D

[Janak Parekh]

Rephrase that, Ed. SMS with Fitaly. :mrgreen:

--janak

[dean_shan]

I must say, that's an old phone.

[yslee]

Stylus input is way way worse than T9 for me. Loathe it, hate it, detest it! No keyboard, no sale!

[Menneisyys]

One of the many things I really like about the Pocket PC Phone Edition is SMS with a stylus. :D

Or, the plain Pocket PC :)

My wife is also keen on sending SMS messages. She is quite adept at using the stylus with the on-screen keyboard. Of course, it can't match the speed of my StowAway BT keyboard :)

[Albegor]

I can confirm we're pretty crazy about SMS here, especially the young ones, so no surprise about potential tendonitis... what a bad habit IMO!
:roll:

[goirish!!]

I guess I'm just an old fart, 36, but I've never understood the big deal with Text. If I can take the time to text then why not just place a call? :roll:

[Darius Wey]

I guess I'm just an old fart, 36, but I've never understood the big deal with Text. If I can take the time to text then why not just place a call? :roll:

It's cheaper in the short run...

In the long run however, it's funny seeing people send around 10 messages back and forth just so their "conversation" makes sense. The cost of that many SMS messages tends to be more than a call itself. :roll:

[DaleReeck]

That "finding" reminds me of when Norm MacDonald used to do Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live: "...from the pages of "Duh" Magazine..." :D

[Paoac]

I can understand the usefulness of sms, such as during work where you just cant be seen on the phone with (I do that a lots) :lol:
or kids at highschool where some teacher ban talking in class

But that link claim this 13yrs old type more than 100 a day?
Thats just crazy... mind as well get a portable keyboard for herself

[yslee]

It's cheaper in the short run...

In the long run however, it's funny seeing people send around 10 messages back and forth just so their "conversation" makes sense. The cost of that many SMS messages tends to be more than a call itself. :roll:

If you get free SMSes it's not so bad.. Here we have plans that give like 700-1000 that are targeted at the teens. Plus there's the mentality (driven in by nagging moms no doubt) that mobile phone calls are very expensive, even if it's easier to make a 1 minute phone call then 20 SMSes over 10 minutes..