Ellmyruh just discovered that her cell phone can receive text mesaging from the Internet for free. Okay, I should probably find out how many messages I can receive for free. It's like having your very own personal AOL chatroom which you can't get rid of. People can send me a written message so that I don't have to check my email or voice mail. That's what Brunnen-G just described.
Text messaging is for people who are too lazy to check their email or voice mail.
Our phone doesn't do that. I didn't think mine did, either. They invented mobile phones and text messaging. Sam picks a random number and hopes it's Ellie's. Ellmyruh got the text messages, that's for sure.