Devices using the SMS standard are limited to 160 characters maximum per message. Your previous phone may have used something other than the SMS standard, or may have had some application extension that "stitched" multiple SMS messages together, but that is NOT standard. The standard text messaging applications will let you type a message exceeding the 160 character maximum, and then break that up and send multiple messages of no more than 160 characters each that may or may not be received in the correct order. If text messaging is the most important thing to you, return your 6800 for a refund and go back to using your "V" phone. Either way, we would appreciate you cleaning up your language.
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As suggested by the name "Short Message Service", the data that can be held by an SMS message is very limited. One SMS message can contain at most 140 bytes (1120 bits) of data, so one SMS message can contain up to:- 160 characters if 7-bit character encoding is used. (7-bit character encoding is suitable for encoding Latin characters like English alphabets.)
- 70 characters if 16-bit Unicode UCS2 character encoding is used. (SMS text messages containing non-Latin characters like Chinese characters should use 16-bit character encoding.)
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