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Text with iMessage

Text with iMessage

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Text with iMessage

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- [Instructor] Now let's look at Text Messaging. At this point in time, I think anyone with a smartphone knows what texting is. But briefly, the idea behind texting is that it's a media communication in the same sense that a phone call is immediate, but it's also less formal than sending an email to someone. Now, on iOS devices, when you're texting with friends, who are also on iOS devices, whether it's the iPhone, or iPad, or even the iPod Touch, you're actually using a messaging system called iMessage. iMessage works just like text messaging, except unlike regular text messages, iMessages are free, so you can send as many messages back and forth between you and your friends on iOS devices all without being charged by your wireless carrier. And iMessage also works over both cell networks and Wi-Fi networks so you can text to and from non cellular devices, like the iPad and iPod Touch. Now, if you're on an iPhone, your…

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