08-02-2003, 05:31 PM
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Join Date: 01-27-2003
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Originally posted by afwen
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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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
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Here's an experiment for you: Go to any email client or web based email service like hotmail, yahoo, etc and try to send a SMS to any mobile phone. How would you do it without using a domain??? Answer...YOU CAN'T!!! You have to use one of the various domains I posted earlier. SMS is essentially a MOBILE email address plain and simple. You don't think of it as email b/c of the seamless nature of how it works on mobile phones. That is a good thing b/c that how it was meant to be...simple. The problem is, Sprint apparently doesn't believe in simple and thus we have this shortmail/text messaging confusion.
In any case, once i500SMS comes out, you won't have to worry about th differences b/c both shortmail and text messaging will be treated like SMS on your SPH-i500...Thank GAWD! |
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