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Can anyone explain me why? What for?

Phone calls are more natural, quicker and easier and do not involve 1000 annoying beeps. Emails are less restrictive if you need to send information over. What is this obsession with the out of date last-century technology? Particularly whilst driving...
 
Convenience.

It's just a message and if like me you have just a few moments to check messages whilst out and about - they're all there waiting for me at a time that's convenient for me to check.

Not saying I like texts - just that they're a very handy means of basic communication.
 
Sharky said:
Isn't this question about 10 / 15 years late?
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I agree. It is 10-15 years out of date :)

I guess I prefer scammers texting me than calling (had one all the way from Colorado last week) but that is about it.
 
Can you get me some milk

Oh and haricot verde

Pickup the dry cleaning on your way home


Oh will you stop calling me ever other minute woman. I'm driving, just send me a text and I'll read it when I can and don't have to remember it.
 
Since I'm hard of hearing and thus cannot hear on the phone, the texting method is quite a handy little bit of technology which has made the minicom system go the same way as the fax machine. However, since I hate texting anyway (just don't like using the dinky little touch keyboard on the smartphone, not to mention the strain is it putting on my aging eyes), it is a bit of a moot point with me.
As a result, I do most of my correspondence and chit-chat online via email and facebook using an actual keyboard and a big screen and only use text messaging when absolutely necessary. It keeps the PAYG cost low where I've been able to make a tenner's worth last for six months.
 
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"looks at phone log' last call made 16.9.14 16.45 last text mins ago says it all really :)
 
It's convenient, requires the bare minimum of signal, quick to type and send, and for all those reasons, if the recipient needs to reply they can do so with the minimum of disruption to whatever they are doing. When I'm leaving a job I can text my wife to say 'I'll be him in half hour' for example, done in seconds without impeding my journey home (so I'm not on the phone while driving), if she is busy with work or our son then it doesn't interupt Her so much, and doesn't require a response.

If I wanted to have a deep and meaningful conversation, I'd ring them. If I wanted to deliver a personal message of importance I'd call or possibly email them depending on the circumstance.

Saying its 10-15 years out of date seems a little nonsensical given the popularity of other messaging apps like WhatsApp that does essentially the same thing.
 
Texting is still also a fantastic reliable replacement mechanism for pagers. Important updates or events can be relied on to get through as previous stated opposed to online based mechanisms.
 
Like Ian above I have some difficulty hearing clearly on the phone as I have a moderate hearing loss so texts and emails are great and you also have a record to refer back to if needed, like the shopping list example.

I remember pagers. Having to stop at the nearest pay phone when the damn thing went off.
 
It really is a problem for those of us with hearing aids - my phone is blue toothed to my car - totally hands free BUT I'm very ver rarely called - people know I won't use it in the car - BUT it's there for emergencies.

I won't check the phone when I'm driving - but text messages can be useful at times - to check if a friend is free to talk etc when I'm at home. Also very useful when I'm away on holiday - you can get a lot into a text message and it's usually cheaper than a phone call
 
Could you image this place, rather than having the written word as the method of comminication but a series of phone calls, skypes, voice recordings and everyone shouting over each other. What fun it would be.
 
I don't actually text much now or use the phone
with friends and family it's WhatsApp and Skype
 
ST4 said:
Could you image this place, rather than having the written word as the method of comminication but a series of phone calls, skypes, voice recordings and everyone shouting over each other. What fun it would be.
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emails are fine, it is the txts I have issue with. The archaic limitations of the service and lazy people make it sound like they are still in the kindergarden. There is usually no proper grammar, so good luck interpreting. And since it is tied to a handset, you can't really access texts in any other way, unlike emails.
 
daugirdas said:
emails are fine, it is the txts I have issue with. The archaic limitations of the service and lazy people make it sound like they are still in the kindergarden. There is usually no proper grammar, so good luck interpreting. And since it is tied to a handset, you can't really access texts in any other way, unlike emails.
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My phone displays a QWERTY keyboard on a touch screen for emails and texts, and I use propper grammar and spelling in emails and texts, so what's the difference between a text and an email to me?
 
daugirdas said:
emails are fine, it is the txts I have issue with. The archaic limitations of the service and lazy people make it sound like they are still in the kindergarden. There is usually no proper grammar, so good luck interpreting. And since it is tied to a handset, you can't really access texts in any other way, unlike emails.
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Latest smart phones spell for you, text speak is actually dying out as its quicker and easier to send proper punctuated and spelt messges via iMessage or SMS (if you know lesser phone users). I do everything on my phone, email, text, FB, Googleplus, twitter, Flickr, Instagram, here when I am not at my Mac. About the one thing I don't do is actually call people on it, messages, emails, they are quicker and can be responded to when you are free, unlike a call which comes in and you either get or you do not.
 
ST4 said:
Price, potentially depending on your data allowance and your text allowance? Thats it.
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Then neither, as both are unlimited.
 
daugirdas said:
emails are fine, it is the txts I have issue with. The archaic limitations of the service and lazy people make it sound like they are still in the kindergarden. There is usually no proper grammar, so good luck interpreting. And since it is tied to a handset, you can't really access texts in any other way, unlike emails.
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My texts appear on my phone, my tablet and my laptop computer just fine. All perfectly in sync and grouped by conversation with one or multiple people :)
 
Besides lots of texts, so far I've also used my phone for 105 minutes of talk time. And a 30 minute multi point video conference. I'm not discriminate towards any particular use. Then again I use mine for business 99% of the time.
 
ST4 said:
Jeez. You can communicate with lesser phone users via SMS completely for free.
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What's your point Steve?
Mine is that I use the same device for textx and emails, so daugirdas's whine about "archaic" tech is irrelivant.
 
Depends on what you want to communicate about. There are certain situations where I would prefer to call. You can have a real time conversation with someone. But they may not always be available or they may have just missed your call. Emails take time to check and reply. In a day, I might check my emails 2-3 times max. It's easier if I'm connected to wifi. If I'm on 3G, I'm dependent on the signal and it doesn't always get through. SMS means you're relying on having a phone signal and as long as there's a signal, it will get through - even if the signal's too poor to support a proper call.

SMS allows me to check messages and reply at my own convenience without having to rely on data/wifi connectivity.

daugirdas said:
emails are fine, it is the txts I have issue with. The archaic limitations of the service and lazy people make it sound like they are still in the kindergarden. There is usually no proper grammar, so good luck interpreting. And since it is tied to a handset, you can't really access texts in any other way, unlike emails.
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Is that deliberate? "txts" - why did you miss out the "e"?
"Txtspk" is from the days when it cost 25-50p to send a message (but cheaper than a call) and you had a limited number of characters. These days, with unlimited text deals, it's far easier to send longer text messages.
 
daugirdas said:
Phone calls are more natural, quicker and easier .
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texts are cheaper.. you can record whats been said and it doesnt rely on the other person being able to answer it at exact time you want to say soemhting.,.,.. text has a lot more going for it than phone calls that can be missintrpreted or things forgotton.. signals can go part way through a phone call or somehting missheard..... phone calls are for people who dont have forward thinking and rather stick with old stuff...

and.. I have probably made half a dozen text messages in my life... cant be trying to type on a phone.. takes ages :)
 
viv1969 said:
What's your point Steve?
Mine is that I use the same device for textx and emails, so daugirdas's whine about "archaic" tech is irrelivant.
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None really other than i have an iPhone and it acknowledges other iPhones and sends superior iMessages to them, but lesser phones get SMS which really isn't much of a point but as its showing the potential to be "one of these threads" I thought I'd get my 2p in with a completely pointless post, which is like this thread really, pointless but highly amusing.

Comedy gold

daugirdas said:
emails are fine, it is the txts I have issue with. The archaic limitations of the service and lazy people make it sound like they are still in the kindergarden. There is usually no proper grammar, so good luck interpreting. And since it is tied to a handset, you can't really access texts in any other way, unlike emails.
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ST4 said:
None really other than i have an iPhone and it acknowledges other iPhones and sends superior iMessages to them, but lesser phones get SMS which really isn't much of a point but as its showing the potential to be "one of these threads" I thought I'd get my 2p in with a completely pointless post, which is like this thread really, pointless but highly amusing.

Comedy gold
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To be fair on you, that was the completely pointless bit :lol:
 
@ST4 yes indeedy.
 
ST4 said:
None really other than i have an iPhone and it acknowledges other iPhones and sends superior iMessages to them
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Oh. So like my Android phone with its hangouts. Except more expensive. Got you.
 
daugirdas said:
emails are fine, it is the txts I have issue with. The archaic limitations of the service and lazy people make it sound like they are still in the kindergarden. There is usually no proper grammar, so good luck interpreting. And since it is tied to a handset, you can't really access texts in any other way, unlike emails.
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But that really is going back 10 years,
when the text messages were about 10p a go, and 160 characters per message.
hence the shortening of wds 2 txt spk.

Now they are mostly unlimited and you can type as many words / characters as you want.
Most of the people that I communicate with,
via text, use English, I would assume that a "certain generation"
Still find it easier to u's txt spk.
And have found the habit hard to break.


ST4 said:
You're a lesser phone user aren't you?
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If you are insinuating that iPhones are superior to other breeds of phone,
next your'll be saying that Nikon is superior to Canon :p
 
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Oh. So like my Android phone with its hangouts. Except more expensive. Got you.
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Does hangouts fully automatically switch between GSM SMS vs hangout users and depending on signal availability? It's cool if it does that now opposed to having to use a different application.
 
dejongj said:
Does hangouts fully automatically switch between GSM SMS vs hangout users and depending on signal availability? It's cool if it does that now opposed to having to use a different application.
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Dunno. I never really know how it works. I just use the same app and sometimes they are SMS and sometimes they are Hangouts.
 
Aha I notice it was introduced in September for android 4 + devices and a google voice account. Cool!

Now if only they could make it work so it does that cross platform it would be brilliant.
 
ST4 said:
Aren't they ;)
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Dunno, I've neither owned a iPhone, Mac or Nikon.
Someone must like them as they seem to sell :p
 
Cobra said:
Dunno, I've neither owned a iPhone, Mac or Nikon.
Someone must like them as they seem to sell :p
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What....soon you will say you won't have a Rolex, drive a Mercedes.

Mercedes, Nikon, Rolex, Apple these are the brands which every maker in that field is defined by. To use anything other than these makes is to accept second best ;) :D
 
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