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To: 100cfm who wrote (81537)	9/26/2000 10:57:08 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 152472

SMS <is really more for teenagers and that once voice inputed email arrives SMS will be dead> Well, as I wrote I know construction and service crews as well as a lot of engineers, managers-secretaries who use SMS messaging regularly, professionally in their work (the service company I refer to "claim" 1-1.5 hour saved every day by having "instant messaging" out in the field, up on a ladder or with the head deep down in box, cannot answer the phone) According to finnish studies the main factor for teenagers (besides the budget) is that they do not yet like to call and "talk" to each other, one is kind of shy during those crucial years. However, writing emails, SMS and IRC is more OK, lesser chance of making a total fool out of oneself when trying to "connect" socially especially to the other sex) Parents also has to learn, because there is nothing like getting a call from mommy when out with the boys or a girl/boy, SMS messages are a lesser evil. Clearly SMS will evolve, the start and part of the evolving "instant messaging" service. The smart thing with SMS was that was/is done in the extra 160 byte free space when the basestations constantly keep track of the handsets. And the smart thing with WAP is that it can use the existing SMS messages, which the netwrok already provide, although at "average" speed of probably 100-200bps. When the network and basestations are upgraded it becomes 9.6khz and with GPRS the connection delay disappears (almost) All while the money flows in for the operators and the consumers can use what they pay for :-) Btw, I think it will take a long time befor any speach recognizing algorithm will beat a couple of fast thumbs and predictive text input in speed and accuracy for normal messages (a handfull of commands, words is a different thing). Additionally teenagers as well as adults learn to spell better. Ilmarinen. P.S. This summer's new level of SMS-culture was the 3 year old kid of a friend, he started to keep a stone in his pocket, and every now and then he took it out to "see if there are any messages" (I wonder when regular action-thriller-soap movies will finally include mobile phones in the plots, maybe regular Hollywood cannot yet do SMS??)