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Isn't there still a 160 char limit as well? I thought the support for longer SMS protocol messages these days was just multiple messages in the background. Wiki
by Nition 9y ago
Isn't there still a 160 char limit as well? I thought the support for longer SMS protocol messages these days was just multiple messages in the background. Wikipedia still just says "Larger content can be sent using multiple messages".
- asmosoinio 9y agoYes, longer SMS messages are technically sent as multiple parts, each one SMS.
- _acme 9y agoWhich is why iPhone users hate texting Android users. Their messages always come in green, split up and in the wrong order.
- rusk 9y agoDepends on the encoding. It's 160 chars over 120 bytes using a special 7 bit encoding. However, if you fall back to ASCII it's 120, or if you're using a wide character encoding it drops to 60. But as someone else says we have concatenated SMS these days to cater for the longer messages.