Comments on: Thursday Poll: Traditional Text Message or Free Messaging Service?

By: marballe

marballe — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:58:00 +0000

Their profits went from messaging to data.

By: Hiral Patel

Hiral Patel — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:42:00 +0000

They will still make money no matter what too many folks with Smart Phones that do not know they even have Gtalk or what it is and thus only text message. Sadly it will take another 10 years before texting is completely obsolete.

By: jtwildman1

jtwildman1 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:37:00 +0000

Companies like Verizon will never lose money.
I promise they will raise the price somewhere else if everyone stopped their texting plan. Besides, it’s really
Not that expensive,I spend more on a Red Bull

By: John

John — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:39:00 +0000

interesting. i guess i’ll keep trying… thx

By: schwinn8

schwinn8 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:39:00 +0000

GV is my SMSing platform now. It requires a diffrent phone number (I was lucky to get a single digit change from my existing phone number). It confuses some people, so I get the occasional traditional text, which costs me money, but it’s cheaper than $10/month for 500 text messages and such through VZ. Besides, I can tell them to use the other number, and people usually get it. It’s well worth the effort, really. Eventually, I may block standard SMSs, but the occasional text from new people is tolerable.

By: kixofmyg0t

kixofmyg0t — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:09:00 +0000

I knew somewhat of that. What Im saying is I dont normally have data inside a tank but texts still go through. I pop out and LTE comes back, or 3G if Im out in the middle of nowhere.

By: LionStone

LionStone — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:01:00 +0000

I do use GV for my vm and some texting but it is nice to just shut off the mobile network when all I want my phone for is to call and still be able to text, especially when I’m in 1X (one area I work at). On the other hand when I’m traveling by airplane, it is nice to get vm and to be able to text over wifi.

By: KatsumeBlisk

KatsumeBlisk — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:23:00 +0000

I mainly use standard SMS because the people I talk to don’t have smartphones. Of course, I don’t really talk the them even. I’ve started using Google Voice for everything, but it’s still for texting and I pay for texting still.

By: LionStone

LionStone — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:49:00 +0000

Yep, that was one of the attractive points about GV that I really liked…about keeping your personal # more personal.

By: quiklives

quiklives — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:41:00 +0000

I don’t use GVoice, but I am trying to transition my friends over to GTalk whenever possible. It’s easier, quicker and cheaper than texting.

By: majesty

majesty — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:11:00 +0000

I use GV and it says that you have a message with a “subject” which means a pic or video and then I just go to GMail to see it.It could be better I don’t know, I just dont have a data plan so I use wi-fi…but that’s cool for me and YES they can send it directly to my number.

By: JayB

JayB — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:59:00 +0000

I hate regular sms texting. I wish everyone would either use G Talk or Google Plus messenger. I love the ICS G Talk.

By: Reginald Jefferson

Reginald Jefferson — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:55:00 +0000

While Sprint does have access to MMS, I believe the rest of us get a hybrid fix kind of. Currently when I receive the occasional MMS I’ll still get the notification in GV, and I also recieve an email with the actual picture. Is it convenient? No. But its there for that one person that still sends me MMS. Everyone goes FB these days anyway.

By: Reginald Jefferson

Reginald Jefferson — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:51:00 +0000

Google Voice for us on Verizon too bub

By: Michael Hart

Michael Hart — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:56:00 +0000

Lack of MMS is a major benefit of Google Voice, imo. Most MMS messages are silly/useless, and I’d rather not have them anyway. If someone has reason to share a picture with me, use email, Picasa, or Google+.