[crobs808]

160 characters is a universal limitation of the networks (ATT, Verizon, Sprint, whoever!). There has to be a limitation on the number of characters, or networks would not be able to charge people in an unbiased fasion. My two word txt msg would cost as much as your paragraph txt msg.

It will show up as one paragraph/threaded text message on your phone, but the other person will get multiple messages, broken up into pieces, each 160-chars max in length, so if you send a 1,000 chars message, it will show up on the sending phones as 1 txt, but the network breaks it up on the receiving end into 7 messages. (1,000 divided by 160 - 6.35, thus 7 separates txt's)

You can try it if you want...send a very long text message to a normal phone (non-smartphone) or even another smartphone it will get broken up too on the receiving end. Be careful when you do this...I have unlimited texting, but the number of messages went up when I got a smartphone because it was so easy to type on my flip out keyboard...Each messages was really going out as 2 or 3 txts since I typed so much.


-C