On 10/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christie Dudley</b> <<a href="mailto:longobord@gmail.com">longobord@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One inaccuracy:<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon</b> <<a href="mailto:openmoko@snowulf.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
openmoko@snowulf.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span></span>Here are a few quick points in considering "unified" messaging system.<br>1- SMS is one paid add-on. Data service (for IM) is a separate paid add-on. Many people have one, or the other - not nearly as many have both.
</blockquote></span><div><br>I am not aware of anything that does not support SMS that does support data, although SMS is seldom, if ever, used by those whohave a choice. I certainly use both with my current phone. This is definitely not an either/or situation, otherwise we wouldn't be having this discussion. I like your assessment of the rest, though. Although there are length limitations to IM as well, it's generally considerably longer.
<br></div><span class="sg"><br><div>Christie<br></div></span></div><div><span class="e" id="q_115d5d6d42353040_5"><br>-- <br>--------------------------<br>Nothing is as damning as the lies you tell yourself.
</span></div></blockquote></div><br>I'm not saying that there are phones that support data and SMS - I'm talking about calling plans. For example, my personal plan I get 200 SMS messages a month and zero data (for free - and I have no intention of paying their per KB rates). On my business phone I get unlimited data and no SMS's (Again, no intention of paying for their per SMS fee). I know I'm not alone on this in either case.
<br><br>What I'm simply saying here is that there will be people that will want to specifically use (for example) IM's (since they travel over data service), and _disable_ sending SMS's in all but the most important of times. Of course the reverse would be true with people using SMS only.
<br><br>-Jon<br>