Depends 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 c

Depends 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.