12-16-2006, 07:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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Do You Use SMS On Your Windows Mobile Device?
I was wondering how many of you used SMS on their mobile devices given Windows Mobile has other communication methods like email, IM and a variety of others that you could install. My wife and I use SMS several times a day. It is a good way to keep each other up to date on what is going on, but when it comes to other people I know in North America, SMS is not very widely used. I know it is a much bigger deal outside of the US and Canada, but it is also very costly to do a lot of international SMSing. I am not going to bother asking about MMS. You can be the biggest MMS fan on the planet and if you can put up with the MMS client on Windows Mobile devices, you have a strange predisposition to self-inflicted torture. 8O
Note: If you are using SMS as "push notification" for pre-WM5 MSFP devices, don't count that.
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12-16-2006, 07:22 PM
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Mystic
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I have 2 teen-age daughters who text messages all day long. It seems to be a very common practice among teens these days. They have the T-Mobile Dash (thanks to the MS sponsored $100 deal a month or so ago) and my wife and I both have the Qtek 9100 (HTC Wizard). My 12-yr old son received the hand-me down Nokia from my oldest daughter. That is 5 phones on the T-Mobile family plan. We do not even use land-lines anymore. A while back, T-Mobile had a deal for the family plan to get unlimited text messages for $9.99/month. I think it is $20 now. Anyway, I got that special promo at the time and we each have effectively have had a $2/month each, unlimited messaging since. Collectively, as a family, we send thousands of messages every month so it was very worth it. The younger generation will definately be more into 'texting' than us old folk.
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12-16-2006, 07:36 PM
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Re: Do You Use SMS On Your Windows Mobile Device?
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
I was wondering how many of you used SMS on their mobile devices given Windows Mobile has other communication methods like email, IM and a variety of others that you could install.
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I use it heavily every day and for me it's not a questions of Windows Mobile (I use) or not but a question of interoperability. Like circuit switched voice, SMS is one of the few services I can be sure it reaches the other, doesn't matter if the recipient is using a PAYG, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm or what ever device. It simply works and therefore it's the safest way to write messages on the go which reaches the recipient instantly (as soon as he/she switches on the mobile phone).
That's why I love SMS and it might be the reason why it will never get a replacement.
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12-16-2006, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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My partner and I live some distance apart; it's the one way we have of communicating easily from over a hundred miles away in the UK when we're both at work, and can't talk on the phone instead!
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12-16-2006, 08:57 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2004
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I hate SMS. It costs me 10 cents per message received, even if I didn't request it. It wouldn't be so bad if I only paid for messages I sent - then I could have some control over how much it costs me. (I have Verizon - tried Cingular, but where I'm at only Verizon has any signal at all)
The other day I received 16 SMS messages from a roommate. He had erroneously sent an email using his SMS account, and to the wrong address. The system split his message into 16 separate messages, sending them to me days after he "sent" them. Yes, he's a moron; but why should I be penalized for his mistakes?
I can see using it for short one-time messages like "plan B is a go", but using it like a chat program seems absurd to me.
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12-16-2006, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by rhelwig
I hate SMS. It costs me 10 cents per message received, even if I didn't request it.
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Can't you pay $2-3/mo and get 100-200 SMS messages :?:
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12-16-2006, 09:16 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jan 2006
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On an average, I send around 150-200SMSes per day(yes, per day). Around 80SMS to my love and rest to my friends.
I have taken some scheme underwhich each SMS cost me just $0.002 !!(in indian rupees 10paise per SMS)
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12-16-2006, 09:25 PM
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Pupil
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
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Originally Posted by rhelwig
I hate SMS. It costs me 10 cents per message received, even if I didn't request it.
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Can't you pay $2-3/mo and get 100-200 SMS messages :?: |
Probably, but the point is: why should I pay for receiving messages, especially ones I didn't request?
Also, since email is free and has more functionality, why would I ever bother using SMS?
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12-16-2006, 09:38 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Can't even imagine using it. Everybody I know thinks it's for kids, and would be insulted if I started messaging them. I'd rather call, or email. I guess it's your peer group that sets the standard. And mine definitely aren't teens.
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12-16-2006, 09:50 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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My wife and I use it constantly during the day, between our PPC-6700's. Yeah, we could email, and we do that, too, but generally we use SMS.
I also use it occasionally with one or two other friends.
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