Over the last few months the number of text messages I’ve been sending and receiving has increased drastically. Additionally, the number of photos taken with my phone and then sent to someone has gone from maybe one every two months to a few per day sometimes. Less then two years ago I hated text messaging and didn’t even have a phone with a camera! What do you want, I was on Nextel.

Last summer I started to actually use the 50 text messages that came with my plan, going over by a few here and there. By fall I had upgraded to a 200-text message plan and was using more then half of those for my billing cycle. What irks me is that I’m on Cingular and have a rollover plan, however text messages don’t roll over! What kind of crap is that!

Fast forward to April 2007, my friends had started to text me more and more and I started to use Motorola Phone Tools software with my RAZR phone. The software allows you to backup all of your contacts, sync with your mail program, transfer photos on and off the phone as well as put ring tones / mp3s on and off, and send / receive text messages through a computer. Since I’m on a computer all day for work and several hours at night, this was a perfect solution. No more wasting time hitting keys, with my phone hooked up to my computer I can text as fast as I can type!

So I decided it was time to spend the $20 a month to get unlimited text, picture text and instant messaging (which I’m still not a fan of on the phone). The ability for me to take a funny photo and send it to a friend without worrying about the cost to do so is great. But because I upgraded plans mid-month, I wasn’t able to track the progress live on Cingular’s website.

My billing cycle starts and stops on the 17th, so last month I set a funny little goal to hit 6,000 text messages. That is about 200 per day, or 100 sent and 100 received. Not terribly hard to do now that I could text most of the day via full sized keyboard while it is hooked to my computer, but still a lofty goal. As of this writing, my billing cycle ends tonight midnight and I have 6,365 text messages, more then my goal! I’m not sure I will stay at this pace for the next billing cycle, but I’m sure that when my paper bill shows up, it will be the size of a phone book! My poor postal worker.

Now I’m starting to wonder just how unlimited, unlimited really is. I’m sure there are 15-year-old kids with no job whom text way more then I do, where is the ceiling? Anyone care to share how many text messages they have used in a billing cycle?

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