I've always been able to receive texts greater than 160 characters from non-VZW users, but whenever I sent them texts greater than 160 characters, I'd get the warning text from VZW that only the 1st 160 would be sent. If VZW did remove this crippleware, then that's great. Tonight or tomorrow, I'll try it out by texting more than 160 characters to a non-VZW user (or even my e-mail address) and see how that works.
QuadCoreGeek, thanks for posting that table, but you left out VZW smartphone to VZW smartphone. I assume it also has a 1,120-character limit?
The last time I owned a VZW smnartphone was the summer of 2006, so I honestly can't accurately report on VZW smartphone to VZW smartphone.
let us know how your 160+ text test works out!
So far, I did an e-mail text test. I entered 160 characters, but when I tried to surpass it, the phone told me that the maximum characters has been reached. It sensed that I had an e-mail address in the To: field. So 160 is still the max allowed to e-mail. I didn't try a long text to a non-VZW customer yet.
