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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by rubidium on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @07:49AM (#2143094)
>SMS is no longer optional.

False! Perhaps for your way of life, but there's the age-old 'you != everyone'. Once your friends know you don't text, they stop texting you. They may think you're a Luddite, but that's another issue.

Even though you (and me for that matter) may want SMS on phones, I don't think it was a poor design choice to skip SMS on this phone.

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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by jacquesm on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @08:07AM (#2143133)
> Once your friends know you don't text, they stop texting you.

I really really tried, but apparently your friends respect you better than mine do me :)

I don't mind being known as a Luddite ;)

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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @08:39AM (#2143212)
On UK landlines now you can receive texts, they have a service that does text-to-speech and reads the text to you. With this then you would only lack a way to send texts, people wanting a simple phone probably don't want that.
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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by sbarre on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @09:32AM (#2143359)
In Canada it's the same thing. Text a landline and they get a call with a TTS of the text and a message indicating what phone number it came from.
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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by code_duck on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @01:43PM (#2144420)
Well, but like the above poster said it's not all about your friends texting you - verizon, for instance, sends password reset notices through SMS, and other service messages.
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