text message length?

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wildhorse i

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Greetings all,
I've just upgraded from my trusty Motorola L2 to a Tilt. Its real nice but I'm still afraid to touch it.

I had the bottom of the line plan from AT&T, and have added to it a data plan so I can waste time more efficiently. My question's about text messages: On the L2 the message was limited to 512 characters, but the Tilt only lets me type 160. I see from my searching that 160 is the norm for SMS, but I had no special features before, and my longer messages always went to the recipients as a single message. So the question is how can I get the longer messages back. I'm wordy, I don't know if I could write my name in 160 characters.

Thanks for your help.
 
Text messages are sent as one hundred sixty character chunks. Either the sending phone or the receiving phone or both might have the ability to concatenate messages. That is a long message is sent out in several sub-messages of one hundred sixty characters each and recombined in sequence when received by the destination phone. The sending and receiving carriers would have to support this. It does no good to have the ability to send long messages if the carriers in the pathway or the destination phone does not assemble these chunks in the correct sequence.

You could send messages as email to the email address of the phone. You can also send text in multimedia messages. Since text messages and multimedia message cost the same when you have a messaging package, you could send one multimedia message which would be equivalent to six text messages.
 
Thanks for the reply, Earl, I'll try the multimedia track and see if that works for me. I never used it with the old phone; all my textee's could get them but mine couldn't.
 
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