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SMS-enhanced AMS
19Jul2005 Filed under: Geek OutI absolutely cannot wait until October when I can ditch my Sprint account and switch over to a carrier that offers better SMS capabilities. As it stands now, checking SMSs on my phone takes a long time, costs me money, and barely works. I have to log into my phone’s web services, then I see message and a phone number (most of the time I can’t place who it is). It sucks. If you’ve used SMS to contact me and not heard back, I apologize. Things will change in few couple months.
Then again, I guess I’m not totally sure if the SMS issue is a Sprint thing or a Sanyo 8100 issue. Anyone care to enlighten me? I guess part of the issue is that I’m sort of tempted to get a Sidekick, and Sprint can’t do that shit. Then again, maybe it would be easier to stay with Sprint and just get a new phone, assuming new Sprint phones have better integrated SMS. Can anyone advise me?
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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krissa
July 20th, 2005 at 10:09 am
Ariel (my prior comment went to hell so I’m saying it again), I think it’s a Sprint problem, as I have a friend with the same mind-bogglingly outdated and mid-nineties issue. Sprint, you suck. Texting is the new way to avoid even more human contact! Woo!
Vera
July 20th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
It’s your phone. I’m still with Sprint but have a new phone now, and it handles SMS’s much better. I can save messages and it recognizes phone numbers from my address book and associates names with it. It does cost money (10 cents a message received or sent), but from what I can tell, most providers charge something.
Esther
July 20th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
Yeah I agree with Vera, that I would ASSUME it’s based on the kind of phone you have, because of the way things are organized within the phone/on the SIM card. SMS’s look diff. on Jason’s phone than on mine (we both have TMobile). And, mine is the chintzy free phone that I got when I signed up, but it draws from the phonebook on my phone to identify who SMSs are from and shows the number otherwise.
Also, if you’re really into SMSing, usually there’s a cheap-add on with unlimited or certian number of SMSs per month. They’re 5c apiece OR $3 for 300 a month, so I have the latter plan because I definitely send/receive more than 60 messages a month. speaking of, I DID send you an SMS Saturday, because I assumed you would appreciate the gleeful humor in me being at Neighbors at a bachelorette party
GuRlWiThSpRINt
February 11th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
yuk. i have sprint, and i cant switch to a company with GMS because i am on a plan that lasts for (at least) 2 more years. I really want a juicy sidekick from T-mobile…someone was saying the other day that theres some kind of chip that you can put in any kind of phone and it will make the phone availible to any company such as a RAZR with sprint. is this true? please i need help!!!!!
Sandy
February 11th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
I totally feel for you, GuRlWiThSpRINt. I so want a razor and im stuck with sprint. When is sprint going to sign on with Motorola? Seriously, Their ripoff of the Razor and the sidekick is depressing. Oh and about that chip thing? Im not sure if that exists but if it does let me know! does anyone know about that?? If it does, im getting a BLACK razor=))!!