Cellphone users don't have it easy — many enter far more letters than numbers into their gadgets, but most phones still make you do so using a number pad.
Nevertheless, the majority of cellphone users don't know they have such options and those thousands of stories contribute to some of the most solid wireless bottom lines in the world.
Not exact matches
That's not a luxury most
cellphone users have, although they
do have the «choice» of paying $ 600 or $ 700 to buy a phone outright and then have it unlocked (hopefully).
It's the Pareto efficiency at work — ESPN wins because it gets
users watching more of its video,
cellphone providers win because they get more money and consumers win because they don't have to pay anything extra.
While After School has no information on the identity of
users, it
does keep
cellphone data that can help police trace a post to a particular device.
The Pew study doesn't look at the texting habits of those under age 18, but a study released last year by Nielsen found that those
cellphone users in the 13 to 17 age range were the most avid texters among any age group.
• The
user interface is
done in Silverlight, which the
cellphones will obviously support.