makeuseof.com — Want to send a short email to a friend and get it delivered to his/her cell phone as SMS? If you know your friends’ phone numbers and the carrier they are on then you can easily send emails to their cell phones directly from your email program.
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obchunky1Nov 30, 2008
This seems like something that should be more common knowledge, but as I discussed it with all my friends it's clear that very few of them knew this existed. It may be old news, but it's hardly common knowledge. I appreciate the post
njhardc0reDec 1, 2008
that made zero sense.
steviesteveoJan 12, 2009
jimv1983:I was pointed to this thread from a related topic and noticed your comment.A text has a payload of 160 characters and this can be encoded using a 7, 8 or 16 bit alphabet depending on your needs (Middle and Far East users need the 16 bit) and the number of bits in each letter determines the size of your message (160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 16-bit characters). Concatenated SMS reduces that to 153 for 7-bit,134 for 8-bit and 67 for 16 bit to add in the extra code to stitch messages together. That means that a regular single text is 140 bytes + overhead (conversatively that might make up an extra 20 bytes) and a single part of a multipart text is 134 bytes + overhead.There is some overhead in terms of origin address, recipient addressing and routing information which adds onto the message size but you're right - a smaller text which doesn't fill up the whole payload space will simply be smaller. Padding a message when you're dealing with a network is wasteful of bandwidth and the phone sends only the data it has to.