Cellphone texting problem

The phone software watches what letter keys you are swiping across and compares that to words that are consistent with that. It then displays about 4 likely matches that you can choose from. It works very well.

It also documents it. If you have a phone call and speak to someone, will they get the address right, (where's a pen?), the time right, the price right, what you agreed to, etc. With a text, if there is any issue later, you have proof.

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That's the point, it's not. Text messages are typically SMS format and are not billed to cell phone users unless you have an obsolete pay by the minu te plan. MMS format is used to append media to text messages. None of thi s is email which can only be used over phones by paying data rates.

Is that more precise non-earthling?

I'm very much an email person and vastly prefer that for 95% of my communic ations. Many others prefer voice communications even if it is in the form of a voicemail. Then there are those who prefer texts. Each has its use a nd advantages, so I try to remain flexible.

Emails are not nearly as usable when not sitting in front of a computer tho ugh. Texts show up in a single screen showing the back and forth (if you a ren't using a dinosaur flip phone) and are very easy to send or receive eve n when your phone is in your pocket.

I would say voice communication is the least preferred by me, but most pref erred by many simply because of the ease of the back and forth resolving is sues with not expressing a thought well. It is also the most responsive in the sense of immediacy. When you end the conversation that issue is resol ved, period.

I think that is mostly an advantage because many people aren't patient enou gh to read a message (text or email) thoroughly enough to always understand the meaning.

Good thing we have choices... well, those of us who don't eschew technology have choices. The rest of us accept the leavings of the rest. Kinda like sitting on the porch with a shotgun while the sheriff comes to evict you f rom the land in the flood plane of the new dam they are building. Sooner o r later you will have to either shoot the sheriff (but not the deputy) or g ive up your unusable flip phone when they drop the last service your artifa ct is compatible with.

I go through this every time I buy a PC. I don't want to give up my full s ize arrow keys and I don't want to use a touch pad with the buttons built i nto the pad.

As told to you by one customer services representative (your statement) that was working for one company in one part of the world.

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That's what I see happening on my daughter's (magic) phone :)

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I haven't seen this behavior, but many messages I type the phone will prese nt choices of anticipated words at all times and usually after pressing one key the word I want is in the list, so two touches per word! At the end o f a word it often presents choices of period, question mark, etc. I'm gett ing to like it and find answering texts on my old flip phone (to tell them to send texts to the other number) is much more awkward. Three presses for the 'c', one press for the 'a', three presses for the 'l', three more pres ses for the other 'l'... you get the idea. I should create a form text to send out with almost no button presses.

My younger clients seem to prefer to use text messaging and while at 40 I tend to be comfortable with either I do like it for that reason, our business is somewhat self-documenting.

I'm sure at one time in the 1890s say, engineering firms kept a file of all letters and telegrams from their clients for future reference.

That's why I like email. The emails are essentially an archive, searchable and can be backed up. But I don't use email on the cell since that would mess up the archival nature.

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Even SMS has been kinda passe in Europe and Asia for a while now, possibly originally because of differences of text/voice/data pricing structure where unlimited SMS was not a common service but data rates were cheap.

I get the impression most Europeans under 35 exclusively use one of the many messaging apps out there like Facebook Messenger or Viber or whatever. Also SMS is best-effort but it's not a guaranteed-delivery protocol, it just gets shot out into the network and you don't have any confirmation the message was delivered and sometimes they can show up hours or days late. Messaging app services use their own protocols and generally there is some mechanism like an icon that appears that at least indicates your text has been delivered to the other party's account successfully.

Among "the kids these days" email is used for business communication but it's thought very stodgy, like sending a telegram in 1950 or sending faxes in 2019. Mostly for very official communication like with department heads or HR and so forth but not for day-to-day BS-ing.

No true. My emails, entered on my phone, all end up on the server just as those entered on the PC. Work account too. Emails tend to be longer so more of a PITA to type on a phone, though. The archive isn't lost at all.

I've never seen any way sent emails are stored on the server. How does that happen?

IMAP

I have discussed this issue with many who recommend using IMAP and none of them have indicated that IMAP would in any way store sent emails on a server.

IMAP is merely the protocol your mail client uses to talk to the server. You still have to configure your client app to actually store sent email on the server. There should be setting somewhere...

Jeroen Belleman

Not for outbound email.