Long SMS messages - Can it be done?
- I've got a friend who has an LG phone with the pull-out QWERTY keyboard. The phone isn't all that special, but it does have one really cool feature. When she sends out a text, she just types everything she wants to say, and then if it's too long for one text message, the phone breaks it into smaller pieces - 150ish char. each - and sends each piece out as a seperate text.
Is there any way, either with an app or some sort of setting, to do the same thing with my Curve?08-04-08 02:12 PMLike 0 - Nope... But hopefully RIM will address this when they come out with OS 5.0. Your only way around it is typing your long texts into an MMS
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com08-04-08 02:14 PMLike 0 - I think MMS might have a 1000 character limit but I'm not quite sure on that
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com08-04-08 02:21 PMLike 0 -
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com08-04-08 02:32 PMLike 0 -
Good to know that MMS allows me a somewhat longer text field.
Thanks for the info .08-04-08 02:43 PMLike 0 - sunkastSuper BadIf it's that important that you cannot wait, shouldn't you just call the person??? And BTW, the thing that BlackBerry phones were made to do was email. That is RIMs claim to fame is the instant delivery of email to phones.
Last edited by sunkast; 08-04-08 at 02:59 PM.
08-04-08 02:55 PMLike 0 -
As for calling them, half the point of texting is that it's more discrete than a phone call, which is a must during long meetings at work. It's called.....multi-tasking (at least, that's what I tell my boss I'm doing )08-04-08 03:44 PMLike 0 -
Right now, my Curve just gives me a pop-up that tells me I'm out of characters.
Edit: I'd really love the reassemble feature. It would make reading the my friend's texts much easier.08-04-08 04:02 PMLike 0 - Yes! That's what my friend's phone does too. Is there an option to turn that on, or is that a carrier specific feature?
Right now, my Curve just gives me a pop-up that tells me I'm out of characters.
Edit: I'd really love the reassemble feature. It would make reading the my friend's texts much easier.08-04-08 04:16 PMLike 0 -
- jeffhRetired ModeratorBreaking a long text into up to 6 messages of 160 chars each is a form of Enhanced SMS, the implementation of which is carrier specific. If your correspondent is another BlackBerry user, you can always send a pin, which is not limited to 160 chars. If there's an upper limiit, I haven't found it. Pins use data service instead of text messaging.08-04-08 05:34 PMLike 0
- Pete6Retired ModeratorBreaking a long text into up to 6 messages of 160 chars each is a form of Enhanced SMS, the implementation of which is carrier specific. If your correspondent is another BlackBerry user, you can always send a pin, which is not limited to 160 chars. If there's an upper limiit, I haven't found it. Pins use data service instead of text messaging.
Neither of my Blackberrys will do this whilst my son's WinMo phone does it with ease on the same carrier.
This appears to be a BlackBerry limitation. At least under GSM.08-04-08 05:40 PMLike 0 - T-MO UK will split a large message into up to 6 messages each including 160 characters for a total of 960 characters.08-05-08 06:57 AMLike 0
- I'm on AT&T and I'm also using a beta version of OS 4.5. I'm not sure which of those two things allows me to do on my curve, what you can not, but one of them does. If I go over 160 characters it just puts the extra characters into additional text messages. It's always been that way - I did not (as far as I know) turn it on.
MJ08-05-08 10:06 AMLike 0 - jeffhRetired ModeratorYou didn't have to turn it on. You either have it or you don't. In your case, you have it. The implementation is carrier-specific. Verizon does not implement it. I did have a person with extended SMS capability send me a long text. I received it as a series of 160-char messages. But if you send me an MMS message, I won't get it at all. Verizon didn't implement MMS on the 8830.08-05-08 11:28 AMLike 0
- You didn't have to turn it on. You either have it or you don't. In your case, you have it. The implementation is carrier-specific. Verizon does not implement it. I did have a person with extended SMS capability send me a long text. I received it as a series of 160-char messages. But if you send me an MMS message, I won't get it at all. Verizon didn't implement MMS on the 8830.08-05-08 06:36 PMLike 0
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