How often do you text message?

[blackllotus]

Not as much as this girl

In addition to her leet txting skillz she is going to give her prize money to a good cause

I'm going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes

 

[Twista]

clothes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woohooo

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Holy crap! 8000 text messages a month?? Thats like... almost 300 a day?? good lord!

 

[Shawn]

I weep for humanity.

 

[bobsmith1492]

I clock >500 lines/day in Google chat with partners for our engineering senior project... one conversation was >400 lines alone.

 

[Kelemvor]

I think I've sent 1 text message ever from my phone.

 

[Mrvile]

I'm going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes

Yeah that just about made me cry

 

[mpitts]

I use them all of the time. My job is such that it helps me stay in touch with my clients and it also allows my friends to contact me during the day without my phone ringing.

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: Mrvile

I'm going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes

Yeah that just about made me cry

She should have used it for college or a car at least.

 

[zylander]

Originally posted by: Shawn


I weep for humanity.

 

[EGGO]

What a waste of air.

 

[B00ne]

wow with the normal SMS cost here that would be ?1600 a month

 

[tfinch2]

8000 msgs a month? Someone get that girl a phone with a qwerty keyboard.

 

[Gibson486]

i don't think I can even type that on a qwerty keyboard that fast.

 

[blackllotus]

She types a little over two characters per second which I don't even think is possible on my phone because there seems to be a one second pause after I type a character for it to go on to the next one

 

[BillyBatson]

lol i sent 3000-5000 txt a month and i can txt without looking and without using t9 however i would have lost cuz i can't even spell that

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i have never sent a text with my cell phone

cell owner for 7 yrs

 

[Chaotic42]

Never

 

[Jeff7]

So, how much does a text message cost to send? How many bytes does it take to send a typical text message? I'd imagine that the cost per byte for a text message is a few orders of magnitude greater than that required for voice data. That's got to spell pure profit for the cellphone companies - none of this BS of providing video streams to cellphones. The people want to send snippets of abbreviated text!!!!


<---- never sent a text message.
I do own a cellphone, but I use it so infrequently, I don't even know its phone number.

 

[txrandom]

She probably has an unlimited plan that costs around $15 (based on Sprints pricing).

 

[Leros]

Some girls like text messaging for some reason. I don't really get it.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: blackllotus
She types a little over two characters per second which I don't even think is possible on my phone because there seems to be a one second pause after I type a character for it to go on to the next one

most phones seem to transition from one charecter to the next instantly. The only problem is if you want to type something like ABC. then you would have to hit 1, then wait, hit 11 then wait, then hit 111.

Unless it's on predictive text.....

 

[Bryophyte]

Jesus. That's either really pathetic or amazing. I'm going with pathetic.

I send maybe one text a week.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: illusion88

Originally posted by: blackllotus
She types a little over two characters per second which I don't even think is possible on my phone because there seems to be a one second pause after I type a character for it to go on to the next one

most phones seem to transition from one charecter to the next instantly. The only problem is if you want to type something like ABC. then you would have to hit 1, then wait, hit 11 then wait, then hit 111.

Unless it's on predictive text.....

she must have figured out how much predictive text to use for supercalifragilisticwhatnot and then practiced that pattern to get the timing down right.

 

[Bucks]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: illusion88

Originally posted by: blackllotus
She types a little over two characters per second which I don't even think is possible on my phone because there seems to be a one second pause after I type a character for it to go on to the next one

most phones seem to transition from one charecter to the next instantly. The only problem is if you want to type something like ABC. then you would have to hit 1, then wait, hit 11 then wait, then hit 111.

Unless it's on predictive text.....

she must have figured out how much predictive text to use for supercalifragilisticwhatnot and then practiced that pattern to get the timing down right.

If you are typing say an "a" and you want to hit "b" you can hit the right over arrow key and you can do it instantly instead of waiting