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Poll: How Often Do You Send Texts?
The Shadow is a good phone for texting with its SureType keyboard. With all this talk about SMS notifications and the like, it got me wondering: how often do you text? Has the practice taken the place of making an ol’ phone call? Or does the 160 character limit keep you from making it a preferred means of communication?
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about 1 year ago
i rack up around 60 text a day not including any alerts i have set up. i always try to text because it allows me to get my point across with out having a long conversation. and thanks to allshadow.com i now don’t have have to get that damn message tellin me it sent.
about 1 year ago
Thats where your wrong. The 160 character limit is only for one message. Thus if you go over the 160 limit, it will send it as two messages. I’ve somehow racked it up to 3 messages, and I’m sure it can go way beyond.
about 1 year ago
juvenile really? texting is a great for of communication even jobs text now days i found out about my job by text my boss texted me
about 1 year ago
Right – it’s a 160 “per message” limit. Most people I know try to keep the length at 160 or less because it can get annoying having to flip back to the inbox to retrieve the second or third part of the message (which sometimes gets delayed, depending on the type of phone the other person has).
Just did a test and got it up to five messages. There’s probably no limit. It’ll just keep sending more messages.
about 1 year ago
@ usamake
“u wnt frz w tht?”
about 1 year ago
whats the most you guys text in one billing period!!!
i did 4,375
about 1 year ago
the most for me was like 5,500 back in dec..
i do about 100+ txt a day this i why i gotta have a suretype or qwerty keyboard lol
about 1 year ago
im currently at 2400 messages for this month with a few days left to make it 2500.
id rather text someone than call, and i ask them to do the same for me. in fact, i ask them to do so in my voicemail greeting!
i rarely go over 160 characters.
while on the subject of texting, does anyone know how to remove words from the PREDICTIVE TEXT PROMPT? I’ve gotten some mispelled words on mine that i often accidentally select when texting quickly.
about 1 year ago
i can bust out a good 300 messages a day talkin bout nothin at all. the prediction is crazy on this phone
about 1 year ago
I rack up well over 100 texts per day. I also send way more than the 160 character limit more often than not.
My brother has a smart phone (a BlackBerry Pearl) and receives one large text regardless of the number of characters I use; so it is dependent upon the recipient how they will receive the text above 160 characters.
about 1 year ago
i am at 7000 messages. haha! the most that i have done was i think 8000? but i still have a week left til my billing period is up.