Text message character length

[manthony6567]

that is true i have the sprint mogul and it does the same only in certain fones will i recieve the text message split if exceeds 160 like another ppc fone or if not a sidekick but i use to have a crappy i880 nd it never stoped me 4rm writing what i want like yu sed i could of wrote a novel on it and they would get it completly ma gurl has a chocalate she writes alot but most of the message jus gets delted i just get part of it (not happy)

[Thundaar2000]

couldn't you use MMS?
I think MMS has a higher limit.

I looked at the \/erizon site and here is what I found...

"How many text characters can be entered into a picture/video message? The maximum number of characters that can be entered into a picture/video message is 400 (a space counts as one character). "

[[sammich]]

I believe Vcast to Vcast phones use a proprietary messaging service. I heard it from a verizon rep.

But we all know how reliable in store reps. are...

[michaelk]

Originally Posted by saumaun

I believe Vcast to Vcast phones use a proprietary messaging service. I heard it from a verizon rep.

But we all know how reliable in store reps. are...

now that you mention it- I think that's right.

One of the treo firware revisions allowed more than 160 others did not. My sister in law has a razr and she would send big messaged all the time. On some phones I'd get the whole message on others it would just truncate at 160. I'm thinking it must have been that some treo roms where 'vcast' compatible and others weren't. MAkes some sense now that you tossed that out.

[xweaponx]

You can still type a novel... it you look in the corner of the messaging screen you will see a 1/1 or 1/2 etc. Thats the number of 160 character-limited messages you have created. When you are done with your "novel", it will send it but the person will simple recieve 1 or 2 or 3 text messages containing the full message.

As it has been mentioned you have your messages stiched together using a non-standard sms service but the end result is still the same. I sometimes pump out small books worth of text and everyone within my circle still receives them fine.

Of course you can email too and that is basically un-restricted but then not everyone receives email on their phone. But many of my friends have PPC's and so we just email large text, attachements, etc...

[michaelk]

actually it's better this way- it's the most compatible.

If you send from one of the phones with the non-standard setting to a phone that only gets the standard 160 length the receiving phone just truncates at 160 and the end of the message gets lopped off