I have the impression I am being stitched up by Vodafone (nothing new there!).

I have a stupid Qtek pda / phone thing which when I try to write a text it only allocates 160 characters before it makes it into two texts.

Can you please check if you are on Vodafone that when you go to write a text, how many characters it allows you to use per text as I am sure that everyone else I speak to has 1000 characters!

Thanks

Fitz

 

160 on PDA here

 

No, All SMS (Short Message System) are made up of multiples of 160 chars. Most phones nowadays will let you compose messages made up of more than 1 "page". Back in the day you would have to send each 160char message separately!

 

Check this out...
Text messaging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Ah ok thanks for that, so on other phones, even though its showing 1000 characters in essence it is showing 6 text messages.

Ok fair enough, just felt like I was getting a raw deal, seems like I was wrong!

Thanks

 

tip... if you get charged for texts and wish to send a long message ie 1000 characters then it may well be more economic for you to send an MMS instead which has a limit of 1000 I believe.

 

4 X Nokia 6310's.. 160
1 X Sony P910i/PDA... 162
1 X Sony k800i... 160

Thats my own phones which i own
Who told u that its 1000 ??? & what phone are they using ???

I've go a mobile phone shop & this wud be very interesting 2 me.....

let us know....

 

Well this came about because I had a look at my friends phones, nokia 6280, a samsung phone, and a couple others. When they were typing texts their character counter, counted down from 1000 - so I assumed that they could use all 1000 on one text. (Assumption being the mother of all fcukups).

Obviously I was wrong, so I'm guessing then than after they clock 160 characters, they are billed for two texts etc.

 

Nokia 6280 and max sms size is 1000. As said above though this is multiples of 160 sms. You can see how many you have sent by checking your Message Counter (under logs menu on a Nokia). Here it tells you the number of messages you sent which are made up by x number of parts (single 160 character sms) which is what vodafone will charge you for.

Simon

 

That depends on your service provider and tariff. For instance I am with Vodafone and I get 200 free txts (I think!) but I will get charged for MMS :-(
O2 used to just give me 1000 txts and MMS was deemed 4x txts, not sure if that is still the case. As always, everyone is after your hard-earned