According to research firm Gartner, SMS – which turned 15 this year – is on the way out and will eventually be replaced by mobile email.
“Once email becomes available more or less free of charge by default on your mobile handset, people will gravitate to that rather than just continuing to use SMS,” Simpson said.
I’m dubious this will be the case, though. While email access from a mobile phone will indeed become more popular, there’ll still be a fair few people that won’t want to get disturbed by email on their phone. And considering the typical subject matter of SMS (“wat u up 2?” “watz 4 dinner?” “will b home l8″) where you expect a near-immediate reply, I just don’t see that sort of thing happening over email. For SMS, The Days Are Numbered [SMH]
Nathan
Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 1:01 PMAm I the only person who knows of imode? I have been using it for 2 years now and loving it. Pitty Telstra are dropping it at the end of the year. You get an email address for your phone and when someone emails you it is instantly pushed to your phone. Both my girlfriend and I have imode phones and we email each other via our phones. Messages are instant, no word limit and usually only cost about 2cents. A far cry from SMS at 20cents or more. I recently went to Japan and nearly everyone over there uses imode. SMS doesn’t exist on Japanese mobile phones.