Some anonymous AT&T user managed to send 662,258 txt messages in a 30 day period using his iPhone. To me, the crazy part is not that the guy sent then many messages, but that he still receives his bill on hard copy. 12,000 pages of hard copy.
I seriously hope this guy recycles, because anyone who still gets hard copies of their bill needs to be beaten on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. 12,000 pages.. and I got the impression from watching his (rambling) video that he was actually trying to break the record. I’m not sure how much it cost him, but he certain must have sore thumbs by this point.
Commenters on his Youtube account have pointed out that this might be faked, since the time involved in sending that many messages is a bit unrealistic, and there is software on the net that could fake these results.
[via DailyMobile]
Wait, did I just see that those 12, 301 pages are double sided even? Thank goodness for that….prolly saved a whole tree….
So that the news tell us : Verizon has a great customer service, right? Print out 12000 pages bill and mail to that customer is great proof .
Haaaaa… If man didn’t join a txt message plan, then he would be in trouble now.
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iphone’s on at&t…..it says both in the friggin article!! if ur gonna spam, but try and make it look like it’s not, at least pay a little bit of attention!
fuckin spammers….
Oh spammers.. at least read the article. He’s on AT&T.
Not to mention AT&T is the only company that the iPhone can be used on.
When you say there is software on the net that could fake these results did you mean to say, “He just might own a printer”? Sending to a list of people these numbers aren’t really that unachievable, just rediculous and wasteful.
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What does “fake” means?
It’s an iPhone. “Want to send 662,258 automated random txt? There’s an app for it.”
I wonder if the “fair usage policy” kicked in?!
662 texts in a month? 22000 texts per day, which means 990 texts per hour, and THAT means 15 texts per minute. And that’s 24 hours a day. So the guy was sending a text every 4 seconds, 24 hours a day, for a month. BS. Unless he sent each of his texts to his entire address book. If there’s 100 people in his address book, he’d only have to send one text every 6 minutes or so. Even then it’s still sort of ridiculous.
I agree, he is clearly lying, thats an absurd number of texts to send. Perhaps he could have done it by some sort of automated means but by hand himself? I think he’d probably be dead by now due to having no time to do things like eating, drinking and sleeping!
I have a 3G card, andf I can put message to my phone too.
Did he SEND that many messages or is that how many was charged to his account. You figure that everymessage you send will receive one also so cut that number in half. But that’s still “impressive”
Unreal number, definitely :) Wondering about monthly bill size from AT & T
You would certainly have to really work somewhat at that do send that many texts wouldn’t you! geez…unless he was running an adult text business!
**New idea to grief my phone company for their draconian business practices.
4 sec per msg, wow.
This is nuts. I call a fake. in order for this to be posisble, this guy would have to be on his phone texting non stop everyday, even when his iPhone is charging. I don’t see that happening ever. And I thought my younger sister texted a lot when she went over 2,000. http://ZiggyTek.com/
Believe it or not this is possible. I’m with rogers and just recently they put up a new tower where I was working (Red lake Ontario) For whatever reason every text I sent was sent between 50-500 times over to the person. I’m not sure what was wrong with the tower but it kept sending the same message over and over again. I had 60 000 texts sent that month and I only spend probabally about 12 days total in town (I worked out in the bush for most of the summer) so I’d say if I was in that town for all 30 days and texting religiously I would have beat this guy easily.
Don’t let your imagination get the better of you. The guy is merely showing that his Iphone is capable of sending 1 text message every 4 seconds. And yes, it’s some automated app doing the work…. or this guy would have any thumbs left.
Maybe in the future, this will be some sort of new way to benchmark communication chains from sending phone to telco infrastructure to receiving phone, used by tech-magazines… but, for now, this is utterly pointless.
We want a phone capable of launching 1 nuke per second! }:D
So he had over a hundred thousand buckx to totally waste away? I doubt this story.. although an ‘app’ on the iPhone could actually do it, technically — but who’d waste that kinda money then?
I think, he could have sent a group(100s or even 1000s) message every hour or so. Just my guess
I agree with iBeem. I doesn’t necessarily mean he sent that many messages individually, what’s stopping him send one text to 200 people or whatever?