Sunday 19 February 2012

The Rise Of Texting

By Amy Lee


Mobile phone texting is one of the most popular forms of communication available. Children, teenagers and adults alike use this form of communication instead of its alternative "making a call". SMS or texting as it is referred to be the secondary feature of a phone. However it is probably used more frequently than the primary use of the phone. The reason for this popularity is the ease of use it affords the user. An SMS or text message is relatively cheaper than a 1 minute phone call. A user can send a message which is over 500 characters long.

Other features such as MMS or multimedia texting are widely used to send images and audio files via text message. This is an additional feature and has to be enabled via the user's provider. Texting and MMS have become a vital part of any phone. It is now considered as a basic feature even in the simplest phones. Many sites also offer free texting services to certain telecommunication providers. Www.textcanada.ca is a site that offers registered users to send text messages of certain character limit to people in Canada. This site is one of many sites that offer this service. By looking and researching on the internet people can find affordable ways of texting their families and friends over the internet.

There are currently many phones on the market that aimed at text messaging. These phones generally come with ease to use keypads such as the QWERTY keypad and the touch screen keyboards. Both these features allow people to easily send text messages. Newer models also allow text messages to be sent to IM managers such as msn messenger and G-talk. These features are trying to bridge the gap between mobile communication and internet communication.

Due to the rapid development in the mobile phone industry it has become obvious that text messaging is a preferred form of communication. New keypads such as QWERTY keypad and the touch pads are popular. The android phone market makes it even easier for user to text message.

The android phones are far more user friendly and are highly advanced in predictive text typing. Many small features such as these have favored the usage of SMS with many types of users including teenagers, children, adults and parents. SMS texting has become so popular that many words have been abbreviated to accommodate certain words for the sole purpose of texting.




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