Texting competitions? OMG!

Yahoo (as some of you may know as my seemingly favorite news source) is running a story on a SMS’ing competition. It’s interesting that the competition was held in the US where SMS’s still have a long way to hit mainstream adoption.  In India (where I am most of the year) SMS’ing is used very often (probably because incoming SMS’s are free and sending one locally is about 2 cents – 1 re.)

I am really bad on phone “keyboards” – that’s why I stick to my QWERTY-based RIM Blackberry  7290. I know it’s an old-school model but I like it anyway.  T9 does help on regular phone models but I still find it to be a bit strange.  Now I understand why people look at me funny when I zoom through on the keys of a keyboard when typing.  It’s the same reaction I have when I see folks hammering a way at those tiny phone buttons!


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