cell fones and sms...
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well i am puzzled a bit here in south africa we use sms a lot in europe they use it a lot lot i have spent the past hour looking at various cell fone companies in the states (for nyc) to find out about contract packages that include sms messaging and i can't even find mention of it!! like wtf? doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to thanks :)
"... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
sonork: 100.18128 8028finder.comlauren wrote: doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? yes they have.. why? Oh... you think the US americans are _advanced_..... :cool:
Back in the days before yer Gighertz and Teraflops there was something we old timers called paranoia. Andrew Torrance, The Lounge [sighist]
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well i am puzzled a bit here in south africa we use sms a lot in europe they use it a lot lot i have spent the past hour looking at various cell fone companies in the states (for nyc) to find out about contract packages that include sms messaging and i can't even find mention of it!! like wtf? doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to thanks :)
"... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
sonork: 100.18128 8028finder.comlauren wrote: doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? Yeah. A friend of mine who managed a cell-phone store used to use it all the time. Personally, I can't see the use of it - it takes longer to type in the message using the numeric keypad than it does to just talk to the person you're messaging (or leave them a voicemail). And besides, who needs SMS when always-on broadband is so incredibly cheap and available that people can check their email every 10 minutes if they want to? ;P My cell phone is 4 years old, and I carry it in my car in case of emergency or if I plan to use it for a particular event (e.g. finding friends at a concert, etc...). The way I see it, if I'm not at home, or not at my desk at work, then you can just sit there and wait until I get to one of those two places :) I don't want to be on-call 24/7. -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
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lauren wrote: doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? We're so advanced, we actually *talk* into the phones intead of typing silly messages. :-D Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
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well i am puzzled a bit here in south africa we use sms a lot in europe they use it a lot lot i have spent the past hour looking at various cell fone companies in the states (for nyc) to find out about contract packages that include sms messaging and i can't even find mention of it!! like wtf? doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to thanks :)
"... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
sonork: 100.18128 8028finder.comlauren wrote: can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to Try this site... :rose::rose::rose::rose::rose: Samantha
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lauren wrote: doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? Yeah. A friend of mine who managed a cell-phone store used to use it all the time. Personally, I can't see the use of it - it takes longer to type in the message using the numeric keypad than it does to just talk to the person you're messaging (or leave them a voicemail). And besides, who needs SMS when always-on broadband is so incredibly cheap and available that people can check their email every 10 minutes if they want to? ;P My cell phone is 4 years old, and I carry it in my car in case of emergency or if I plan to use it for a particular event (e.g. finding friends at a concert, etc...). The way I see it, if I'm not at home, or not at my desk at work, then you can just sit there and wait until I get to one of those two places :) I don't want to be on-call 24/7. -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
"The advantage of e-mail over an answering machine is that with an answering machine the other person could actually pick up the receiver". [free quote] I think it's the same with SMS.
Back in the days before yer Gighertz and Teraflops there was something we old timers called paranoia. Andrew Torrance, The Lounge [sighist]
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Why do girls write without correct punctuation and spelling? :laugh: Cell fones? I know they do it on purpose..but why? ;P After a poor performance in London in 1899, Steinitz went insane and died a year later on August 12, 1900 at Wards Island, N.Y.
Martin Marvinski wrote: Why do girls write without correct punctuation and spelling? Well, because if you're gonna send a text message, you only have 160 characters or letters all in all to complete your msg. dat's y u hav 2 save spce 2 covr it all.. Martin Marvinski wrote: Cell fones actually, they spelled it sometimes like "cellfone" or "celfone" ;) :rose::rose::rose::rose::rose: Samantha
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lauren wrote: doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? Yeah. A friend of mine who managed a cell-phone store used to use it all the time. Personally, I can't see the use of it - it takes longer to type in the message using the numeric keypad than it does to just talk to the person you're messaging (or leave them a voicemail). And besides, who needs SMS when always-on broadband is so incredibly cheap and available that people can check their email every 10 minutes if they want to? ;P My cell phone is 4 years old, and I carry it in my car in case of emergency or if I plan to use it for a particular event (e.g. finding friends at a concert, etc...). The way I see it, if I'm not at home, or not at my desk at work, then you can just sit there and wait until I get to one of those two places :) I don't want to be on-call 24/7. -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
Russell Morris wrote: it takes longer to type in the message using the numeric keypad than it does to just talk to the person you're messaging (or leave them a voicemail). well, it's not that hard.. it takes a while to memorize the keys... but if you do, you can send a text msg. just in seconds... Oh by the way, if you have a fat or big finger.. don't use a smaller cellphone you might just wanna throw your cellphone away... :-O :rose::rose::rose::rose::rose: Samantha
"I respect a person who gives respect to other people, but I feel pity to a person who is rude and seems to hate the world except by himself.." -
well i am puzzled a bit here in south africa we use sms a lot in europe they use it a lot lot i have spent the past hour looking at various cell fone companies in the states (for nyc) to find out about contract packages that include sms messaging and i can't even find mention of it!! like wtf? doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to thanks :)
"... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
sonork: 100.18128 8028finder.comDon't even get me started about cell phones in the States... The still use (predominantly) CDMA and TDMA, though GSM is slowly creeping in. Cingular offers GSM (and hence SMS and all the other goodies). I'm not even going to speculate when the States will have things like GPRS. cheers, Chris Maunder Rub your belly and pat your head simultaneously. Sometimes that helps me make sense of things - Jon Sagara
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Don't even get me started about cell phones in the States... The still use (predominantly) CDMA and TDMA, though GSM is slowly creeping in. Cingular offers GSM (and hence SMS and all the other goodies). I'm not even going to speculate when the States will have things like GPRS. cheers, Chris Maunder Rub your belly and pat your head simultaneously. Sometimes that helps me make sense of things - Jon Sagara
Chris Maunder wrote: I'm not even going to speculate when the States will have things like GPRS. How about G3 and/or UMTS??? Do they even have plans to get them??? As far as I know G3 will be here [Ireland] in the end of this year and UMTS rollout in the end of 2003... although I can't see them bringing in G3 if UMTS is so close.
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks] "It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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lauren wrote: doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? Yeah. A friend of mine who managed a cell-phone store used to use it all the time. Personally, I can't see the use of it - it takes longer to type in the message using the numeric keypad than it does to just talk to the person you're messaging (or leave them a voicemail). And besides, who needs SMS when always-on broadband is so incredibly cheap and available that people can check their email every 10 minutes if they want to? ;P My cell phone is 4 years old, and I carry it in my car in case of emergency or if I plan to use it for a particular event (e.g. finding friends at a concert, etc...). The way I see it, if I'm not at home, or not at my desk at work, then you can just sit there and wait until I get to one of those two places :) I don't want to be on-call 24/7. -- Russell Morris "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.
Russell Morris wrote: it takes longer to type in the message using the numeric keypad than it does to just talk to the person you're messaging Typing txt doesn't take long at all with mobile phones. Especially ones with T9 text prediction.. [which is very very accurate btw]. they are so much cheaper than making calls as well. Added to that the fact that they can be sent and used discretely withoout disturbing anybody around you... To be honest I find it damn annoying when people are speaking on mobiles on the bus and in other confined public places.. When sms's are so much cheaper and non-intrusive!! Ah well.. there's my 2 cent :-D
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks] "It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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lauren wrote: can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to Try this site... :rose::rose::rose::rose::rose: Samantha
"I respect a person who gives respect to other people, but I feel pity to a person who is rude and seems to hate the world except by himself.."Interesting! On the website, my state isn't listed and service is not available. But just down the street, next door to the SuperWalmart, is a Cingular store. I wonder what they're selling? Tin cans, buttons, and kite string?:laugh: I Drowned Schroedinger's Stupid Cat!
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well i am puzzled a bit here in south africa we use sms a lot in europe they use it a lot lot i have spent the past hour looking at various cell fone companies in the states (for nyc) to find out about contract packages that include sms messaging and i can't even find mention of it!! like wtf? doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to thanks :)
"... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
sonork: 100.18128 8028finder.comCell phone ads often tout the "instant messaging" features, however I've never heard the term "SMS" (except on CP!), so don't go looking for that word. --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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lauren wrote: doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? We're so advanced, we actually *talk* into the phones intead of typing silly messages. :-D Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
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Cell phone ads often tout the "instant messaging" features, however I've never heard the term "SMS" (except on CP!), so don't go looking for that word. --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
The term I always hear is "[instant] text messaging". James
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Here in São Paulo, Brazil, no one uses it, because a single SMS message costs about the same of 1Mb of file transfer at 144Kbps mobile. Crivo Automated Credit Assessment
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well i am puzzled a bit here in south africa we use sms a lot in europe they use it a lot lot i have spent the past hour looking at various cell fone companies in the states (for nyc) to find out about contract packages that include sms messaging and i can't even find mention of it!! like wtf? doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to thanks :)
"... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
sonork: 100.18128 8028finder.comIt isn't popular because most of the time you can only send messages to people with the same provider but it is here, nobody uses the term sms though. -:suss:Matt Newman / Windows XP Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179
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well i am puzzled a bit here in south africa we use sms a lot in europe they use it a lot lot i have spent the past hour looking at various cell fone companies in the states (for nyc) to find out about contract packages that include sms messaging and i can't even find mention of it!! like wtf? doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to thanks :)
"... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
sonork: 100.18128 8028finder.comThe FCC (government bureacracy) divies up the spectrum (air waves) and the military already controls a huge chunk of it and is unwilling to give up the part of the spectrum that the wireless communications people want. That is why we lag behind europe in cell phone usage, technology, etc. More info: article 1 article2 article 3
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well i am puzzled a bit here in south africa we use sms a lot in europe they use it a lot lot i have spent the past hour looking at various cell fone companies in the states (for nyc) to find out about contract packages that include sms messaging and i can't even find mention of it!! like wtf? doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to thanks :)
"... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
sonork: 100.18128 8028finder.comI once read an article about why it will never become popular in the U.S. and why it's insanely popular in Europe and other countries. If I can find it within the next few days I'll post it. Short story, the U.S. has many other options available that lessen the 'got to have it'-ness of sms. I'll look for the article this weekend. -Sean ---- "I'm a breast man."
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well i am puzzled a bit here in south africa we use sms a lot in europe they use it a lot lot i have spent the past hour looking at various cell fone companies in the states (for nyc) to find out about contract packages that include sms messaging and i can't even find mention of it!! like wtf? doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to thanks :)
"... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
sonork: 100.18128 8028finder.comSpelling Nazi here. Fone does not mean phone. Fone is the plural of Foe. www.dictionary.com Why do people think it's clever to mispell words? Hmmmm. No gold elephant stamp for you!
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well i am puzzled a bit here in south africa we use sms a lot in europe they use it a lot lot i have spent the past hour looking at various cell fone companies in the states (for nyc) to find out about contract packages that include sms messaging and i can't even find mention of it!! like wtf? doesn't the "most advanced country in the world" have sms??? can anyone who knows better pls let me know which companies and how much etc etc in the nyc area where i'll be moving to thanks :)
"... and so i said to him ... if it don't dance (or code) and you can't eat it either f**k it or throw it away"
sonork: 100.18128 8028finder.comDo you ask this as a user or developer? (Do you need to lease an IP line, or just send messages through your phone?) Here is a list of SMSC dial-up servers around the world. I don't know how up-to-date it is, though.. SMSC dial-up's /moliate
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