Despite the fact that smart-phones have came-up with the sophisticated features and applications, but text messaging is still an interesting service for mostly mobile users. A survey even revealed that text messaging in the US set new records, with 75 billion messages reported in the month of June 2008 alone – about 2.5 billion messages a day. This represents an increase of 160% over the 28.8 billion messages reported in June 2007.

Additionally, according to a statistic announced at US trade association, CTIA, wireless subscribers continue to capture and send more pictures and other multi-media messages, more than 5.6 billion MMS messages in the first half of 2008 – almost as many as were sent in all of 2007.

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