SMS Entertainment

SMS text messaging has become so popular that everyone is talking (err, sorry, sending text messages) about the phenomenon. To ride with this popularity, content providers have made different entertaining text messaging services for you to enjoy.

And because mobile text messaging services are easy to make, there are hundreds of them available. Moreover, even the old monotonic Nokia ringtones and basic picture messages are based on SMS technology, as that is the basic form they are send over the air.

The most popular form of text-based entertainment is jokes. A very close second is horoscopes. Finally, you may even find simple text picture messages and text-based games.

How Can You Get SMS Entertainment Services?

If you’d like to get these text based entertainment services, all you need is text messaging capable cell phone (almost all are) and a cell phone plan with SMS messaging included.

And because SMS is a universal standard, you can even purchase these services globally, provided that the service provider has a roaming agreement with your cell phone operator (this should be clearly stated in the service, don’t purchase anything unless sure that you’ll receive the content).

How to Purchase Short Messaging Services?

Because the price of the text based services are typically so low per message, most services offer reasonably priced monthly subscriptions.

For example, you might subscribe to get a daily text message horoscope to your cell phone every morning.

Even some text-based games can be purchased on monthly subscriptions. For example, Europeans can get a weekly comic strip/adventure game that is guided with text messages and the story-line is shown as picture messages (in Nokia phones).

However, the most popular form to purchase text-based entertainment services is by paying for a single message.

These messages are usually premium priced, so you might pay much more for them than for normal text messages. Or, you might pay for the service with, for example, credit card, and pay normal fees for the text message.

For example, you might get a date prospect by sending your ideal candidates measures (interests and physical looks) via premium priced SMS to a service number.

The service then searches the database of candidates for a perfect match and supplies you with a service number (via normal priced text message) through which you can contact the date.