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Theoretical limit of number of text messages.

06/15/2009 1:57 PM

What is the maximum number of text messages that a typical teenager could send in 1 month from a phone having a thumb drive querty keyboard?

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06/15/2009 2:04 PM

I'm pondering between 5 zeros and six zeros...

esp. if the teenager isn't paying the bill

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06/15/2009 2:10 PM

Ha! That sounds about right, j/k

Im thinking maybe about 1,000?

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06/15/2009 2:11 PM

i had a teen slide through 750 one week.

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06/15/2009 2:42 PM

"Move over teenage girls: two friends from Philadelphia—both men—just received a bill for $26,000 after sending 217,000 texts to each other in the month of March alone."

http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/8806/Two-Men-Attempting-to-Set-a-Text-Messaging-Record-Get-26K-Phone-Bill-for-217K-Texts

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06/15/2009 8:00 PM

Yes, and how many of them are DRIVING A CAR while doing it?

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06/15/2009 8:27 PM

Ummm....I'd be the one guilty of that

But you've SEEN I-10 or I-40

And I memorized my keypad - so eyes on the road - distracted tho

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06/15/2009 11:54 PM

OK,

I get credit for this, but, how about a HUD that projects your cellphone display onto the windshield so you don't have to, "take your eyes off the road".

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Re: Theoretical limit of number of text messages.

06/16/2009 11:20 AM

szwasta,

While I can't speak for the "typical teenager", my teenage daughter broke the 8,100 message mark the first month she had a cell phone with a qwerty keyboard...

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Just my $0.02...

(and $575 phone bill!!!)

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