A900 help... Can you send multiple sms messages?

[polaris30]

I am new to this forum and have learned a lot. I did some searching but cannot find this answer anywhere. On my old Motorola v600 (Cingular) I could send a text message that was over 160 characters long to one person or multiple. It would just send it as two or even three messages. It would break them up into however many it needed. I have tried to figure out how to do this on the A900. It will only let me send one messages at a time. Is there any way to send SMS messages longer than 160 characters? Thanks in advance. :wavey:


Anthony

[Lockdawg]

I dont think so...even if you go to the website it will only let you use 160 characters. If you were allowed more it would take more time to send them to customers and there would be a big delay...

[polaris30]

I dont think so...even if you go to the website it will only let you use 160 characters. If you were allowed more it would take more time to send them to customers and there would be a big delay...


That sucks but thanks. I guess I will have to keep 'em short. :cool:

[PhatSRT4]

That sucks but thanks. I guess I will have to keep 'em short. :cool:

dude, you are not supposed to write a novel over text messaging...

[Ktixx]

Why are we limited to 160 characters anyway. I can write an email that is 12 pages long using my cell phone, and I can browse the internet and download 10MB of information, yet I am limited to 160 characters for text messaging?!? Anyone have an idea why this is? I agree with the above post that you shouldn't be writting novels, but sometimes I have just a few more words that I have to send an entirely new Text Message.
Ken

[polaris30]

Why are we limited to 160 characters anyway. I can write an email that is 12 pages long using my cell phone, and I can browse the internet and download 10MB of information, yet I am limited to 160 characters for text messaging?!? Anyone have an idea why this is? I agree with the above post that you shouldn't be writting novels, but sometimes I have just a few more words that I have to send an entirely new Text Message.
Ken



Thats exactly what I mean.. 160 characters isnt really all that much.. somtimes i have to write 200 or whatever and it sucks cause i have to end the first one short and start a new one instead of just making it two messages that the someone would receive or better yet making the max character limit higher like you said.

[tim7982]

Text messaging works so well because it's a small amount of data being sent. You can use text messaging even when you can't make a call due to towers being overloaded with callers. If they increase the amount of characters, it also increases the time for sending them. Text messaging is meant to be relatively short messages, not emails. If you need to send an email, go to your email on your phone and type as long of a message as you like.

[Kegeril]

SMS = Short message system :) LOL

You originally mentioned being able to send messages to multiple recipients. This should not be a problem, I am able to do this and do so quite frequently. As far as more than 160 chars, I have never had that problem, most of my messages are only a few sentences.

[polaris30]

I understand that humor in this but I was just wondering if it was possible since my other phone could do it. Just makes it easier than writing two messages. I text thousands of messages every month. I find it was easier and more convenient. Would make more sense to me than having to end one message early and then starting a new one with the same subject. :irked:

[tim7982]

I understand that humor in this but I was just wondering if it was possible since my other phone could do it. Just makes it easier than writing two messages. I text thousands of messages every month. I find it was easier and more convenient. Would make more sense to me than having to end one message early and then starting a new one with the same subject. :irked:


Again: If your message is going to be longer than that, there's email from your phone.

[polaris30]

Again: If your message is going to be longer than that, there's email from your phone.

Yeah i know but SMS is way quicker and easier to use.

[tim7982]

Yeah i know but SMS is way quicker and easier to use.


LOL but it's ShortMessageService (SMS) it only allows 160 characters...that is the same with all companies. I've had cingular, and it had the same limit. Once the 160 limit was reached, that was it. Sending in more than one message may just be a capability of a particular phone you had...it is not a provider capable service.

[polaris30]

LOL but it's ShortMessageService (SMS) it only allows 160 characters...that is the same with all companies. I've had cingular, and it had the same limit. Once the 160 limit was reached, that was it. Sending in more than one message may just be a capability of a particular phone you had...it is not a provider capable service.


:crying:

[laursifer]

The 160 limit is a very valid question. You can send a text-only Picture Mail with a 1,000 character limit.

[tim7982]

The 160 limit is a very valid question. You can send a text-only Picture Mail with a 1,000 character limit.

That's picture MAIL...like an email.
We're talking about SMS.

[laursifer]

That's picture MAIL...like an email.
We're talking about SMS.

No, really? I was making a point because it's TEXT ONLY, and it comes to your phone much like an SMS. And it's not like an email. To send an email with Sprint, you have to start Vision and browse to your email page. To send a text only Picture Mail, you simply go to Messaging/Picture Mail, just like Messaging/Text Messages :eyeroll:

Two VERY similar actions with two extremely large differences in character limits.

[tim7982]

No kidding. I was making a point because it's TEXT ONLY, and it comes to your phone much like an SMS. And it's not like an email. To send an email with Sprint, you have to start Vision and browse to your email page. To send a text only Picture Mail, you simply go to Messaging/Picture Mail, just like Messaging/Text Messages :eyeroll:

:irked: Yes, it is received by your phone like SMS, but it is sent like an email, not a short message. It's no different than going to your web mail account, and composing a message. There is no character limit, and once you get it on your phone, you can read it all.

[laursifer]

:irked: Yes, it is received by your phone like SMS, but it is sent like an email, not a short message. It's no different than going to your web mail account, and composing a message. There is no character limit, and once you get it on your phone, you can read it all.

No, it's not sent like an email. Here's the difference: SMS is downloaded immediately while MMS is stored and might not be downloaded immediately. This is why MMS, which DOES have a character limit of 1,000, can hold more text. SMS uses signals that have limited capacity while MMS uses your main data channels to send the message, which have a much larger storage capacity. So again, my point is in the time that you take send an SMS, you can send an MMS with a little over 6-times the character count. Sending an email is much different. You can't, on Sprint phones, send an email from your actual Contact list in your phone. You have to hop on to Vision, log in to whatever email client you use and manually select or type out everything. It's highly inconvenient and nothing like MMS.

*Edit: this is, of course, only helpful if you have a Picture Mail plan, but it's an alternative for the OP since s/he wanted something with the convenience of an SMS and already expressed a disinterest in email from your phone.