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New Trends in Text Messaging: The World at Your Finger Tips !
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Enter the hot seat of a game show! Request a song! Book movie tickets! Vote your opinion! Win a ticket to you favorite destination! Win a date with your favorite artist! Win a dinner with your favorite pop group! Or even Donate blood and save a Life!
.Now you can do all these things with the tip of your finger!! Certainly not through changing channels on your TV sets or by checking your e-mails but through short messaging service (SMS) from your cell phones.
Most of us agree with the fact that cell phones are dominating our lives. With the most advanced technology and with thousands of handsets, text messaging has become an integral part of our mobile lifestyle.
And with SMS becoming the easiest, fastest and surest way of communication, its usage seems to have doubled over the past 2 years among the young and adult subscribers. According to a recent survey, there has been a steep increase in the use of text messaging services. Text messaging has grown by 106% in 2004 and will account for 10% of total mobile services revenue by 2008.
This drastic increase of text messages is not only because they are less expensive, also because of various new trends of messaging that is attracting most subscribers. Checking your bank balance or listening to your favorite song on your mobile, was something unimaginable a couple of years back. However, that is not the case now. Some of the latest trends in text messaging services that help a subscriber include:
Downloading top ten of your favorite songs, be it rock, country, pop or hip/ hop.
Finding out the best movie happening in the movie halls near you just by entering the zip code and booking tickets right away.
Getting the best Live Flash demos of your favorite games on your handset and many a time downloading and playing them too.
Getting low calorie diet recipes on your phone.
Tracking your best friends birthday or anniversary and setting up an alarm to wish em as well.
Getting the latest headline or the flash news of events happening around the world.
Getting the latest weather update.
Getting the latest discounts from your favorite shopping mall.
Creating your own SMS clubs and a community of your own !
Checking your bank balance and credit card limit.
Signing up for some "message value bundle" offer will enable the subscriber to send any combination of text, instant picture and video messages also.
Sending out an SMS whenever there is a need for blood.
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