It was certainly too expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as paying twenty five cents for an SMS message that maxed out at 140 bytes. Before iPhone or Andr

It was certainly too expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as paying twenty five cents for an SMS message that maxed out at 140 bytes. Before iPhone or Android existed, Blackberry was very popular with teens because you got unlimited messaging on Blackberry Messenger included with the data plan you got with a Blackberry. Eventually there were cell phone plans where you could add unlimited SMS for an additional fee regardless of what phone you used. By the time the iPhone rolled around, all the American iPhone plans included unlimited SMS messages without an additional fee.