Global Mobile. Computing without Walls, without Wires, without Borders

Chapter SIX. Text Messaging (SMS)

While trying to decide which mobile phone to buy, a good friend of mine once asked me why would people send Short Message Service (SMS) messagestext messageswhen they could just call the person instead. He had a point; I mean, after all, we as humans are lazy. Clearly, just dialing someone's number and speaking to them has got to be easier (not to mention more personal) than "triple-tapping" your way into thumb-numbness. Or is it?