Cell Phone Types & Text Messaging

Series Summary

Cell phones might just be the biggest boon to (or bane of) modern human communication. With the ability to reach practically anyone in the world at the touch of a few buttons, it seems like we are taking a giant step forward towards the grand “future of tomorrow” that was sold to our parents and grandparents back in the 1950s. Cellular, satellite-based communication has largely begun to replace the land-based telephone system of yesteryear, pushing the giant telecommunications companies to consolidate, repurpose, retool and rebrand to adapt to the new market—faster, cheaper and more convenient being the mantra of the cellular age.

In these free text messaging how to videos for cell phone users, learn how to send text messages. It’s easy. Our expert will walk you through different types of mobile phones and the text features they have. Then learn how to use a numeric keypad to type in letters, numbers and symbols, as well as how to use the T9 texting tool that most phones have available. Once you’ve composed your missive, learn how to send the text message, using a cell phone, a smart phone or PDA. It’s no use talking to your friends if they never get your response! Whether you say “brb” or “on my way,” learn how to send a text and get in the loop—c’mon, everybody’s doing it!

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Rick Kennedy for Expert Village. I'm going to give you types on how to text message on a cell phone. Basically the first thing we have some different phones that we can use. We have a full PDA type full keyboard type phone, we have here a normal type of cell phone which can text type person can, we have a normal types of cell phone, also we have a bosh mobile type two way type phone that also we can do messaging as well. And I want to show you the difference between the three phones. The first thing we're going to work on is regular text messaging. Every phone that we have like you see this right here that we're going to use and will show some simple text messaging with like with the keyboard."