i'm currently using a blackberry 7290 on speakout. just wondering, if i send a txt using the max allowed characters, will i still be charged only for one txt? because it looks like the max allowed characters on the blackberry is alot more than on a regular phone…? thanks

Easy enough to try out. Check your balance, then send a 500-character text message to someone who has a regular (non-Blackberry) phone. Check your balance afterwards to see how you got charged. Then, look at how the 500-character message was received by the regular phone. Multiple messages? One truncated message? If multiples, can the receiver easily figure out which message comes first, etc.? Report the results back here in the forum. Sure, it might cost you 30-40 cents, but then you, and all forum readers will know for sure. The whole forum community will be grateful to you. I know I will be!

bridonca said:

160 characters is the maximum for an SMS message. I do not own a Blackberry, but I could only assume the Blackberry would just sent multiple messages, whereas each each message would be 160 characters and then the rest of the message would be another 160 characters, and so on. You would be charged 10 cents for each 160 characters sent.