Way to remove 160 char. limit on texts?

[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

[Link9228]

Originally Posted by 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

I hate to tell you, you're incorrect. At least in the case of verizon. I know that previously I could send rather large messages, well over 160, and it would count as 1 message. My girlfriend, also on verizon, would get the text as a single entity. That also counted as one text received. On my phone, as soon as I got it, she started complaining that everything I send gets sent to her as multiple messages and she gets a message saying that media objects were removed any time she sends a text over 160 characters to me. Since 95% of my texts are to her, and 90% of the other 5% are verizon customers, so there wouldn't be additional charges. That is why I want to remove the limitation. If I send it to someone who doesn't support over 160 (not verizon), it will automatically cut me off.