Comments on: This is why text messages are 160 characters in length

By: Marc.

Marc. — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:27:43 +0000

The languages are Dutch and Portuguese – it’s a translation of someone who I think is trying to say “I thought about you a lot today” except they have written the form of the verb for ‘he/she thought’ … unless this was intended. I can’t say because while I do speak Portuguese, I don’t speak Dutch. Wish I did though, I love the sound and look of Dutch words.

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By: marc

marc — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:12:37 +0000

what language is the text on the picture? what does it say?

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By: kamasutra's me2DAY

kamasutra's me2DAY — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:05:44 +0000

불가리의 느낌…

“왜 모바일폰의 문자 메세지는 초기부터 160(2byte 80자) 기준이 된걸까?” 에 대한 대략적인 해답 제시!…

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:16:18 +0000

Its not true. The reason why there is a 160 characters limit is that there was 140 bytes left in the message blocks in the GSM standard when GSM was designed. The designers chose to use it for messaging. Given that you only use 7 bit characters, that gives room for 160 characters with some nifty tweaking. If you use smileys or other non 7 bit characters, the amount of text you can use drops. The reason that you can write longer sms’es in reality is that there is a “chaining function” that links messages together. You can link 255 messages this way (allthough most phones limit at 10 or so) which gives a total usable length of some 40000 characters.

By: Krilith

Krilith — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:36:27 +0000

My phone lets me fit about 1000 characters in a text and its two years old. It takes up more space than a single text message but it still shows it all in 1 piece on both phones so long as i dont send it to an old phone

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Kas sugalvojo 160 ženklų ribą? — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:13:20 +0000

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By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:34:59 +0000

They really shouldn’t limit message lengths these days. That, or at least give us more room. I HATE typing like a youtube commenter, its gross and annoying. Hell, give me even just two hundred and I’ll be a thousand times happier. Although I would really like to see something more around three hundred.

Here’s the real reason why we’re limited to a hundred and sixty measly characters that force us to talk like chimpanzee’s; Money. Wheres the benefit for them by increasing message length? Well, they could always advertise it to get people to prefer them over another brand.

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By: Remco

Remco — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:28:11 +0000

well, thanks the info and nice picture…it’s only dutch your seeing at the picture and not german.
this is german: http://jetztimg.sueddeutsche.de/upl/images/user/mi/michele-loetzner/239686.jpg
and this too:
http://www.lidl.de/lidl/lidl_de/images/images_content/content_sms_erinnerung_small.jpg

greetings