Comments on: Cool deal: Beyond160 lets you send texts with 160+ characters http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/08/18/cool-deal-beyond160-lets-you-send-texts-with-160-characters/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Tue, 21 May 2013 07:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: red014 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/08/18/cool-deal-beyond160-lets-you-send-texts-with-160-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-394481 red014 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:53:01 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15100#comment-394481 @Aaron:

…except that for GSM phones, RIM has programmed the software to automatically break up the long text for you as you type, up to 6 or 7 messages of 160 each. CDMA carriers are capped at 1 message of 160. You have to send the first part, then continue writing.

]]> By: red014 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/08/18/cool-deal-beyond160-lets-you-send-texts-with-160-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-504485 red014 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:53:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15100#comment-504485 @Aaron:

…except that for GSM phones, RIM has programmed the software to automatically break up the long text for you as you type, up to 6 or 7 messages of 160 each. CDMA carriers are capped at 1 message of 160. You have to send the first part, then continue writing.

]]> By: red014 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/08/18/cool-deal-beyond160-lets-you-send-texts-with-160-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-504486 red014 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:53:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15100#comment-504486 @Aaron:

…except that for GSM phones, RIM has programmed the software to automatically break up the long text for you as you type, up to 6 or 7 messages of 160 each. CDMA carriers are capped at 1 message of 160. You have to send the first part, then continue writing.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/08/18/cool-deal-beyond160-lets-you-send-texts-with-160-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-394459 Aaron Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:01:28 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15100#comment-394459 SMS has a limit of 160 characters, and it doesn’t matter which network it is on. GSM/CDMA, etc. It’s part of the protocol.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/08/18/cool-deal-beyond160-lets-you-send-texts-with-160-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-504483 Aaron Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15100#comment-504483 SMS has a limit of 160 characters, and it doesn’t matter which network it is on. GSM/CDMA, etc. It’s part of the protocol.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/08/18/cool-deal-beyond160-lets-you-send-texts-with-160-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-504484 Aaron Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=15100#comment-504484 SMS has a limit of 160 characters, and it doesn’t matter which network it is on. GSM/CDMA, etc. It’s part of the protocol.

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