It wasn’t necessarily unlimited texting either. Some plans had a fixed amount of texts per month.
$0.10 per sms message. Even those you received and had no control over.
You’re damn right I’m using up all 140 characters in this text.
And then the first time you learned about T9. Game changer.
It took some getting used to, but it was vastly superior to the new-age Morse Code OP is describing. Two words have the same numbers? “Next!”
This just unlocked a core memory of “prank me when you’re here.” As in, call me a hang up before I answer so it’s free because texting or answering the call would cost money.
what’s cool about t9 is that you can also cipher shit pretty easily and most people wouldn’t bother to decipher it. 94281702665022688081047084280968022602576024743707448077388903274590263066780736753096853618026843708603324743704810
I was faster on that keyboard than on qwerty on smartphones. :(
Also, I hate T9, always disabled >:(
i still need to get a small, foldable portable keyboard for my phone. that would be nice.
I had that Prada KE850 phone. It came out before the iPhone and had a capacitive touchscreen. It also came with this ABC keyboard. Texting was, once you knew where all the buttons were, a whole lot faster than with buttons. No pressing any buttons for 2 millimeters, just some quick finger tapping that stopped at the edge of the screen. Dual wielding the pointy fingies or some acrobatics with the right one.
I’d go back.
I only got it because the iPhone wasn’t available at that time
In that golden moment when the Blackberry was the hottest hot shit
A was one press. B was two. C, that fella was three presses. D? Not five, back to one. Texting was tricky like that
