this article has many commonalities with wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_Service

this article has many commonalities with wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_Service sms should be considered as 140 bytes (not just 160 chars). it drops to 70 chars if you are to use unicode encoding.