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do you pay when you "text" from your cell phone?

by jonah jones Apr 23, 2007 1:20AM PDT

this girl sends she sends 8,000 a month!

jonah "wouldn't know one if he saw one" jones

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wow, it take me a couple minutes to type a short sentence

by jmhal Apr 23, 2007 5:30AM PDT

I've never been able to type well on cell phones. And with cingular, without a texting plan, it costs 10 cents per message sent and received. So that would cost me $800 just for sending and figure if each one had a response thats $1,600 dollars YIKES!, my parents would kill me, and of course make me pay for it as well. But even with a texting plan its not cheap.

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Typing on a phone?

by Bill Osler Apr 23, 2007 10:33PM PDT

What an amazing modern world we live in.

I'm told my cell phone is capable of handling text messages. I've never tried it out. If entering text were easier I might think about it but entering text on phone buttons is a royal PITA, and anyway if memory serves there's a charge per message (or is it per character? I forget) and I'm cheap. Besides, most folks have voice mail or answering machines.

8000 messages a month? That's almost 300 messages per day! I'm not sure I have that much to say to anybody.

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