Texting Back

A very popular service used by almost all current mobile phone users is the ability to send SMS, or short messaging service, from their mobiles to a friend or family member's mobile unit.

Essentially acting like a two-way paging service without the operator in between. This very popular service utilizes plain character text messages which are typed on the numeric using a determined number of key presses to invoke the desired character on the phone's screen. Sending an SMS is not very different from sending a eMail.

An advantage to using SMS is the lower charges (in some carriers SMS is free) compared to calling your recepient. Typically a message sent is about 1/10th the cost of a mobile call, which comes incredibly convenient when requiring to send a note to a friend overseas.
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Multimedia Messaging

An emerging trend in all new mobile phones is the capability to send multimedia messages to a compatible recepient phone. More popularly known as MMS, for multimedia messaging system, this is a step up from SMS allowing users to send full color photos, audio clips, and sometimes videos to a friend or family member.

However, not all mobile phone carriers currently support this feature. If you would like to know if your phone is capable of utilizing MMS, contact your mobile phone operator. Also, charges for MMS messages are about four to eight times the cost of sending a typical SMS. Other carriers charge messages sent based on the size, by kilobyte, of the media sent.

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