Text message character length

[Nuar]

Hey guys,
I just upgraded to the xv6800 ppc and while i love the phone, I am REALLY REAAAAAALY annoyed at the stupid character limit on the text messages.
I use texting a lot and being limited on a friggin pocket COMPUTER is ridiculus.
I had the verizon "V" phone up untill now, and with that phone I could type up a whole god damn novel and send it out as one single text to my girlfriend and since she has the V as well, she received it no problem.
I get this phone and not only my messages get split into multiple texts (RETARDED) when she tried to send me a long text, i only got the first 160 chars or so and the rest was just deleted. No split into multiple texts, just gone.

I really hope there is a fix to this damn feature, if not this stupid "pocketPC" is as good as gone.

ANY help or info would be REALLY appreciated! I looked everywhere and all i found was "texts are limited by the network and not the phone" which is obviously not true since the same network let me send LOOOONG texts with a different phone...