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<p>In addition, you could use iMessage with your family if they all have an iphone. It works just like texting but through data plan. It makes it cheap to text to kids who are abroad.</p>
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<p>How did you know that my D was studying abroad spring semester next year?</p>
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<p>Good to know about iMessage. Never knew how the charges work, only that we seem to enjoy texting one another with that iMessage.</p>
<p>I came accross iMessage when I was searchling for an inexpensive chip to install on my kid’s phone while she was in Europe this summer. I just got the phone bill and it doesn’t look like I got charged for sending/receiving iMessages. We texted a few times daily for a month. If there’s WiFi, it will go through WiFi making it free, I would think. Free texting abroad. No hassle, nothing to install or a new number to remember, it worked as if my kid was back in college.</p>
<p>The problem is not with the iPhone keyboard as much as it is with Apple’s PITIFUL predictive speller. Me and my daughters have iPhone 5’s, and the speller is laughable compared to the stellar one on Windows Phone 7.5 or later (had one), or Android. </p>
<p>My wife ended up getting a Samsung Galaxy Note II after trying to type on an iPhone 5. My daughters could type War and Peace on their iPhones…</p>
<p>I have students who seriously claim to type their papers on their iPhones.</p>
<p>Myself, I still have a dumb phone, though one with a keyboard. I do touch type, and find onscreen keyboards REALLY hard. I think if I ever smarten up my phone, it’ll have to be one with a physical keyboard.</p>