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[michaelk]

Originally Posted by Nuar

Thanks for all the responces guys!

bakntyme,
thank you for the response and i appologize for the language... I'm just really frustrated!
I spent a lot of money on this phone and like I said I love everything about it, except for the texting. I am especially heated, because the salesperson at the verizon store told me the phone will be able to send larger texts without a problem, I made sure to ask about it before I purchased this thing.
Well since its standard to have a 160 character limit on the SMS service, does that mean that the phone itself is limited, or is this potentially avoidable with a different widows mobile 6 application?

While I realize that this might seem like a silly issue to have with the phone, please try to understand that for the past 2 years i had no limit and I got use to it, so now being limited is really annoying lol. I could get past it since I can type as long as I want and it will split it, but others that are use to sending me long texts are whining and complaining even more then me :P

The phone isn't limited- their may be a registry hack or a 3rd party app that can do it.

Basically the networks are limited. to elaborate on what bakntyme said- text messages aren't sent over the data network- that's why you dont need a data plan to send them.

So if they aren't voice and dont go over the data network how does it work? It's a trick- basically they use some extra data space on a signaling channel in the voice network to sneak the messages through. The 160 character limit is because that's all the space that exists in that signalling channel.

I've had phones that send and receive more than 160 charaters of SMS (palm OS treos specifically) not sure how they do it- but i know they aren't following the standard so it's not certain it would work on from any phone on any netwrok to any other phone on any other network. And that's why the carriers and the phone makers place the 160 carrier limit in there.


Anyway- if it's just to send to your girlfirend- why not just send each other MMS messages? They get sent as data so they have no limit that I know of. You dont need to include any multimedia you can just send them as text. In fact some phones have a setting to default to MMS.