You use the same app on your iPhone to read and send both iMsg's and text messages. They basically appear the same, but I think they are labelled differently, so you know when you're reading a text message versus an iMsg.
I think this is configurable, but when sending a message, the iPhone will send an iMsg when it can, such as to another iPhone, and otherwise it'll send a text message. So if you're sending a message to someone who has a cell phone that is not an iPhone, you will be sending a text message and that's what the person will receive. On 17/08/12 12:31, Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. wrote: > So, are iMessages and text messages seen the same to the person > receiving the message? Do iMessages via a data plan get sent to a cell > phone? > > Thanks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 12:26 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: iMessages VS text messages again > > Yes, that is my understanding. iMsg's require a data plan or wifi and > sms's just require a cell phone and are covered under a text messaging > plan. > > On 17/08/12 12:09, Vicky Collins wrote: >> First, grin, I now think I know why my brother wasn't getting my >> iMessages timely, but was receiving the text messages okay. > Apparently, >> although he doesn't know how it happened, he used more data than his >> purchased amount for the month. So, AT&T charged him another fifteen >> dollars for more. Thus, not liking this at all, he went to the AT&T >> store and had them help him turn off the data usage altogether. >> Therefore, he couldn't get my iMessages until he got back home and was >> using his WiFi connection. >> >> Second, then, am I thinking correctly that iMessages need the > internet, >> meaning either WiFi or a data plan? While, on the other hand, text >> messages are something completely separate, and do not require a data >> plan, but have their own separate plan or are charged by the message > if >> no plan exists? >> > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
