You see, the character count of the smiley face is just 2 counts. And, it happened just because you added one simple smiley face. This means that the message below is considered as 3 text messages (160 divided by 70 = 2.29 or 3). This means that the message below is considered as 1 text message, which is good. As you can see on the its upper right portion, its character count is at 158 over 160. Below is screenshot of a text message without a smiley or emoji.Here are some screenshots which proves my point: While I was typing an SMS yesterday, I suddenly noticed that the 160-character limit changed to 70. You know, we’ve got to pinpoint and investigate all possible causes. This is only for the meantime while I’m still figuring the root cause of the issue. We all know that sending text through imessage, for as long as you’re connected through the internet, won’t incur additional charges for it’s supposedly free! Still, I asked my dear friend to transfer our conversations from imessage to line app. At first, I thought that my provider is billing me for sending messages through iPhone’s imessage. Instead of calling up and ranting at my network provider to give me an explanation about this occurrence, what I did first was to investigate on my own.
PINPOINT EMOJI FREE
I only use my 100 free text messages for business-related purposes, which I’m sure won’t go beyond the 100 free texts. All of which are free, because of my internet data plan. All my communications with friends and family are either personal or through facetime, imessage, line or fb messenger apps. What happened? This is the time, when I got really curious. Yes, you can call me “kuripot” for all I care, but I just had to know. For some this may resort to “hayaan na nga, additional 250 pesos lang naman yan” syndrome, but I am different. My bill states that I got an excess 250 text messages on top of my free 100, which means that I will be paying additional 250 Pesos on top of my fixed data plan 1000 Pesos (Note: 1 text message = 1 Philippine Peso). Hold your horses, let me explain it in detail. But, surprise surprise, my bill last month blew up to 1250 PHP. My current phone plan has 100 FREE text messages, which I can send basically to anyone for as long as I keep my character count at the allowable 160 characters per text message. Did you know that the moment you include an emoji in your SMS messages, the allowable character limit will shoot down from 160 to 70 per text? If not, read along.
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