If you are sending to someone using an iPhone, iPod or iPhone then it will
try and use iMessage before sending as a text message - to stop this turn
this off in the iMessage settings on your phone. If it is sent using text
messaging services because a connection cannot be made with the Apple
servers then charges will apply.
If you are sending a message to a phone number and you know the receiver
does not have an iOS device then this will be charged for by your carrier,
be it SMS or MMS.
Larry
London, UK
-----Original Message-----
From: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com [mailto:apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Ellen
Sent: 29 January 2012 07:40
To: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [apple-iphone] Re: iMessage problem
<<imessage is an Apple message system that sends messages between iPhones
and iPads as data. They do not count against your SMS messages. I message
will work over WiFi when you do not have a cell signal. When you send a
message, SMS will be green and iMessage will be blue.>>
SMS is sent as a "Short Message Service" text, using your text plan.
iMessage is sent as data (140 characters = 140 bytes) using your data plan.
Thanks for the information. I didn't know that. I have unlimited text so I
I may not have noticed it, although I did notice the change of colors and
wondered where they came from.. Has this difference been going on a long
time?
In other words, let me see if I get this: It is still confusing to me.
If I use WIFI, I am using SMS is that correct?
Even if I use WIFI, but I'm texting a non apple user is it still SMS? or is
it I message.
If one of my family members is on my contract with AT&T but uses an Android
phone, are our messages
not SMS? (I suppose it doesn't matter if we have unlimited family text,
but I'm still wondering.) If I am using the G3 network it becomes Imessage,
is that correct and uses up the data plan?
If I am using the G3 network when I am out of the house, but am texting to
an apple user, is it still sms or is it imessage?
How many people understand this? Was it announced somewhere? When did this
differentiation in texting start?
This is as easy to understand as my phone bill or cable bill. How do we know
really what we are paying for?
Ellen
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