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There's nothing new about mobile phone users chatting with one another via SMS: Indeed, this is one of the applications which leads the GSM Association to predict that 20 billion such text messages will be exchanged by GSM subscribers this year.
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You could certainly send an SMS on one for example.
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In comparison, SMS notifications are sent at rates above one message per second require expensive short codes.
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Your voice mail, email, SMS and IM will be all in one place.
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Finally, BT Reader, one of LG's own Android applications, monitors incoming SMS and reads them out to the headset, meaning users can stay informed without taking their smartphone out of their pocket.
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Most of these transactions involve SMS based payments, direct mobile billing using PIN and one time password authentication and mobile web payments.
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One young entrepreneur is Susan Eve Oguya, eagerly telling me about her SMS or text service for Kenyan farmers, MFarm.
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So I have one conversation on e-mail with my grandfather and another with my cousin on SMS and all these things don't work the same way.
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