If you decide that text messaging is an added feature you'd like to include in your family plan, you need to understand the different Wireless Plans and some of the types of texting options that are out there:
SMS, or Short Messaging Service, is the shortest method for sending simple text messages to a friend or your entire family. To send an SMS message, you type your message into the Mobile Cell, add the phone number where you want it sent, and send it. Texting really is that easy and a whole new language has resulted from this activity. It uses abreviations of many words and phrases that truly makes it a like a foreign language. One of the benefits of texting is that you do not have to interrupt the person with a call because they can view the message with out disrupting other people around them.
Texting while driving is dangerous and has caused many states to write new legislation making it an illegal activity.
MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service, is sometimes called "picture messaging." This technology is similar to SMS, but lets you add pictures, videos and music files to your messages but of course you are moving bigger files it will cost more. IM, or instant messaging, gives you the ability to see when your family members are online and send them short messages in real time communicating with them without calling them. So now everyone has the ability to make a picture or video and instantly send it to others.
One of the Wireless Plans allow one to upload pictures to an online picture sharing website called Flickr with the push of a button.
Several Wireless Plans now offer the ability to surf the Internet on-the-go. If surfing the Web on your Mobile Cell is a feature you're interested in, look carefully at how the different Wireless Cell Phones and providers access and view the Web.
It's important to realize that Internet access on your Mobile Cell may be an added cost to your family plan. Determine how much you and your family are realistically going to use the service, and then determine which package makes the most sense for you.
If make up a chart with everyones needs and know what features meet the needs of you and your family, you're well on your way to selecting the Wireless Plans that best fits everyone's needs.
Many of these services where available on the computer through the internet but now for convenience have been added to the Mobile Cell and made it possible to stay connected where ever you go.