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On an iPhone, true SMS messages show up in green in the Messages app.

SMS messages can include multimedia content, such as images and audio, but space is extremely limited, so you'll typically see a tiny image or a short audio file, like a ringtone.

SMS messages are sent over voice networks - specifically the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) network, which is why you can send and receive SMS messages even when you have a cellular signal but no ability to connect to the internet.

SMS messages have a maximum length of 160 characters (with even fewer characters for messages written in other alphabets than ours, e.g., Cyrilic).

These documents are written in hard-core nerd language, so only dive in if you enjoy that kind of thing! Here are the key takeaways: 'SMS' stands for 'Short Message Service,' and the standard for such messages is defined in various publicly-available documents, such as the Short Message Service (SMS) Message Format and the URI Scheme for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) Short Message Service (SMS). We'll start with the 'classic' text message, known as an SMS message. It should not come as a surprise that employees of these companies - from the top brass to the bottom of the totem pole - send and receive work-related text messages.īut you can't have a strategy for obtaining and producing text messages without knowing a bit more about them. Even if you are litigating against a Fortune 500 company, text messages should be on the table.

If you are working on a case where the thoughts, moods, and actions of individuals have any bearing on the outcome - i.e., almost every case - you need to be thinking about text messages - both your own client's and the opposing party's messages. For better or worse, there's a level of candor in texts that you rarely find in emails! As a lawyer who's examined many text messages while litigating civil cases, I've often surprised by the things people put into their text messages. Because of these factors, texts tend to be less guarded than emails. Texts are also more intimate because we generally only send one to someone whose phone number we have. A text is less formal than an email - shorter, quicker, and more likely to draw a quick response.

We know from personal experience that they are ubiquitous, both in our personal lives and our work lives.

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