OK, we're getting there!
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Originally posted by gfunkmagic
Okay, let's see if I can make this clearer... If you friend sends a SMS from his Tmo phone (just the number without a domain), Sprint treats it like shortmail and you have to log onto vision to retrieve the message.
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Agreed. What's worse, you can't access this shortmail from an I500 using Sprint's WAP pages. That makes the whole process very slow and tedious.
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If you friend sends a SMS to yournumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com, then the message arrives like a Text message and your mobile does not have to log onto vision to retrieve the message. Trust me, that's how it works...
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That's not an SMS, that's an e-mail. And that appears to be our only disagreement. If I send an SMS to my friend on TMobile, and he replies to it via SMS, what comes back is a shortmail, not a text message.
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Furthermore as I explained the (lengthy) post above, i500SMS (once released) would automatically download your shortmail via vision and present is as a text message in a popup window! That's the whole beauty of it. It allows you to receive your shortmail just like a text message.
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That's great! I'm really looking forward to it.
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This works b/c with unlimited vision, it doesn't matter if you're logged on 24/7.
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I don't have unlimited vision (500 minutes + add-a-phone, $60/month, typical a la carte Vision charges < $1/month, can I do as well with an unlimited Vision plan?). I'm hoping that I don't need to be connected to receive messages with I500SMS, but I could easily be wrong about that.
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And as I and lyoung pointed out before, you can still receive calls while connected to vision, but not while on active connections.
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Conceded, thrice. But let's not forget to give credit to diomark too.
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That's the whole shebang!! I hope you understand.  If not well... 
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I do, and I hope that you do, too. Our only disagreement appears to be that you think that e-mail is SMS (understandable, given that we are Sprint subscribers) and I don't. I'm willing to leave it at that, okay?
-Alvin