The Short Message Service has a new star. Kimberly Yeo, 23, typed a complicated 26-word message on her phone in 43.66 seconds, in a recent contest, making her the world’s fastest SMS typist.
In heats held a few days ago in Singapore, she beat the previous record of 67 seconds, set last year by Briton James Trusler in Sydney, Australia.
The new record bid will be submitted to Guinness World Records, the international arbiter of all record-setting feats, said the competition’s organizer, Singapore Telecommunications.
Contestants had to type:
The razor-toothed
piranhas of the
genera Serrasalmus
and Pygocentrus are
the most ferocious
freshwater fish in the world.
In reality they seldom
attack a human.
Using the phone’s predictive text function - that guesses words as letters are typed in - was not allowed. Like many of her compatriots, Yeo is an avid sender of text messages, sending about 50 a day, or 1,500 a month, Singapore Telecommunications said.
Four out of five people in Singapore already have a cell phone. Singapore Telecommunications, says its system now handles 9 million text messages a day, up from 3.5 million to 4 million in 2001-02.
The Short Message Service (SMS) is the ability to send and receive text messages to and from mobile telephones. The text can comprise of words or numbers or an alphanumeric combination. SMS was created when it was incorporated into the Global System for Mobiles (GSM) digital mobile phone standard. A single short message can be up to 160 characters of text in length using default GSM alphabet coding.
Short Message Service (SMS) is a text message sent or received to or from a mobile phone. The text messages are short, up to 160 characters, and if a phone is out of coverage, in use or turned off, the service holds the message until the phone comes back into the area. Using SMS is easy. A person types a message on a phone (some phones have special dictionaries that make typing easier), specifies who is going to get the message, and sends it. Then the receiver sees the message displayed on their phone.
Short messages can originate from other phones or the Internet, but they are all delivered via a short messaging center (SMSC). They receive messages from phones within their networks, the Internet, and other mobile operators SMS centers, then send the messages to their customers. Messages use little bandwidth and carriers do not have to deliver them in real time (like they do with voice transmissions). While e-mail lets you attach files, imbed images, and make use of HTML, SMS messages are limited to 160 text and numeral characters.
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a photo-enabled version of the SMS. It allows mobile phones to incorporate audio, images, and other rich content with traditional text messages, transforming them into personal collages of vision and sound. Music, voice, images, text, video, and graphics are all synchronised across a common timeline (i.e. not delivered as attachments) as in an email. AT&T’s mMode uses MMS over their GSM network with features like messaging and Find Friends.
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