The telephone has long since become a business tool, a necessary item for travelers, and an assistant in personal life.
Just as email is the cheapest and most common way to exchange information on the internet, SMS messages are the most common method on mobile networks. Short Message Service (SMS) is actually a very powerful tool with a variety of service functions.
Compared to a phone call, you can save up to 90%. And money saved is money earned: so goes the proverb, as well as a quote from Scrooge McDuck, the millionaire from the animated series “DuckTales.”
Similarly, time is money, so saving time is also a very profitable thing. Someone may not answer a call for a valid reason, but simple curiosity will compel them to read the message when they have a free minute.
A little bit of knowledge and countries and states will be much closer.
Learning to write SMS is very simple : In the Messages menu, go to Create New. Type your message by pressing the appropriate key until the desired letter appears.
If your phone keypad doesn't have Russian letters, don't worry—it has English ones. After a couple of SMS messages, you'll see that the Russian letters are almost in the same positions as their corresponding English ones. If your phone isn't Russified, that's a relief!
After a period and a space, a capital letter is automatically typed. To capitalize a letter at the beginning, there's usually a button with either an up arrow or an “aA” icon. Clicking this button will capitalize the next letter.
If you've mastered the most basic functions of reading and sending SMS, here's some information: The Guinness Book of World Records lists the fastest SMS typing time at 160 characters in 41 seconds.
Brief comments: typing a message in English letters allows you to send a much longer text – fitting two SMS messages into one, and if your recipient doesn't understand Cyrillic, there won't be any unreadable characters.
Please note that older phones do not support message merging, and the cost of such an SMS will be equal to two SMS messages.
Unlike a phone call, you don't necessarily have to ask “Where are you?” with an SMS, but every phone has templates you can add your own to quickly send standard phrases.
Now for the main thing : just formulate your offer correctly in the SMS, and the person will call you in response to your message. For this to happen, it must be composed correctly.
The first thing we recommend is setting up SMS delivery confirmation. This will result in a receipt indicating the date and time your message was received. If it's not received, this could indicate technical issues with the recipient or the message was sent to a landline number, for example.
The structure of a mobile phone's message folders is similar to email: inbox, outbox, and sent. The phone also has an address book.
Fill your address book with the short names and, preferably, the last names of your recipients. If you're writing SMS messages in English or transliterated, it's more convenient to use English characters for hotkeys to search for the desired number. When writing SMS messages in Cyrillic, Russian names are perfectly acceptable in the address book. If your address book isn't full, the message header will display an abstract number rather than the sender's name when you receive an SMS.
Compose your message like a regular email—short but clear. Begin with a greeting and address by name, then briefly outline the problem, question, or message in the body. Conclude with your name to ensure the recipient is confident you're the one speaking.
If you'd like a callback on the phone number you're sending the SMS from, include a request for a callback in the message, and the mobile phone number itself should be included at the beginning of the message. Provide a different phone number, such as a work or home phone number, with the area code, similar to a long-distance number: 80656234320. If you're expecting an international call, add the country code and the “plus” (+380501953134) for the network. This way, when viewing the message, the other person's phone will automatically find your number in the message and highlight it. All they have to do is press “Call.”
This technology makes it easy to use SMS, including for mobile phone calls, with just a few keystrokes for both the recipient and the sender.
It's very helpful to know whether your operator supports the free “call me back” SMS service. Not all operators offer this service, but some support multiple languages for this message. These can be used to encrypt various questions and answers or life situations, “completely free.” If an MTS subscriber dials *104*phone_number*03#, the recipient will receive the message: “Call me please.” Call your operator and ask if they offer this service.
You can always send a free SMS online using the form on your carrier's official website. If you don't know your carrier, use a universal website like www.diwaxx.ru (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and many others).
It's also worth learning the format for phone-to-phone money transfers. These services are only available within the network. For this reason, among other reasons, you shouldn't agree to requests from strangers to call or even send SMS messages from your mobile phone. You can also request that money be transferred to your account.
Be sure to check the availability of the email address for your phone: [email protected]. This address may require activation by your operator, i.e., your consent to receive emails on your mobile phone.
Finally, a few jokes from the world of SMS slang , which are usually written without spaces to save space. Hundreds of words have SMS equivalents, for example, 2DAY = today, Y? = why.
A phrase from a school essay, “How I Spent My Summer?” was written as follows: “We usd 2 go 2 NY 2C my sis & her BF,” which translates into English as “We used to go to New York to see my sister and her boyfriend” and into Russian as “We went with my sister to New York to see my sister and her boyfriend.” Emoticons, by the way, express more than just emotions: the *) symbol means “I'm drunk,” and the ~) symbol means “I have a runny nose.”
And finally, one last piece of advice : Don't pester your friends, colleagues, and clients with endless SMS messages—this can lead to misunderstandings or even a breakdown in relationships. Hearing someone speak in real life is much more pleasant in these challenging times.
