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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Study sez Americans send twice as many text messages as Europeans, twice as prone to thumb failure]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</guid><description><![CDATA[If my text usage numbers for the last 8 months are any indication, I'd say that's a fair bet:<br><br>Bill Start	Bill End	Text	        Data<br>6-Feb	5-Mar	4708	583603<br>6-Mar	5-Apr	5750	562119<br>6-Apr	5-May	9305	618925<br>6-May	9-Jun	4984	1111618<br>6-Jun	6-Jul 	5230	584048<br>6-Jul  	5-Aug	9191	425117<br>6-Aug	5-Sep	9051	417411<br>6-Sep	5-Oct	11187	273930<br>6-Oct	9-Nov	9766	585032<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nerdtalker]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 5th 2008 1:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Study sez Americans send twice as many text messages as Europeans, twice as prone to thumb failure]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's just ridiculous.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rudolphe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 5th 2008 1:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Study sez Americans send twice as many text messages as Europeans, twice as prone to thumb failure]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</guid><description><![CDATA[thats about how my texting is too :P<br><br>I believe the results cuz in other countries a lot of people IM on their phone <br>especially with msn and jabber apps<br>but in the US we text like its IMing]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[youngcalihottie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 5th 2008 3:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Study sez Americans send twice as many text messages as Europeans, twice as prone to thumb failure]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, let me retype this article in your language then<br><br>"OMGWTFBBQ"<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pusta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 5th 2008 2:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Study sez Americans send twice as many text messages as Europeans, twice as prone to thumb failure]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is probably due to pricing models. In europe prepaid and pay per use are popular whereas in the U.S. essentially your only option is cap and bucket (i.e. "1000 included messages"), so europeans tend to watch their usage in a different way (even if the end the prices work out to the same).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[greenlight]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 5th 2008 1:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Study sez Americans send twice as many text messages as Europeans, twice as prone to thumb failure]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</guid><description><![CDATA[That kind of surprises me.<br><br>America lags behind the rest of the world in just about everything.  'Cept for gun related violence, of course.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 5th 2008 1:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Study sez Americans send twice as many text messages as Europeans, twice as prone to thumb failure]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is just amazing. So, out of all American cell phone users, 82% of them don't even text message. I guess I can see that. But the remaining 18% of users who use text messaging account for THAT many messages!? Enough to be double what Europe does? That's very very amazing. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 5th 2008 2:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Study sez Americans send twice as many text messages as Europeans, twice as prone to thumb failure]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, teenagers in the US, are addicted to texting, they never use the phone part of the phone. In europe and the middle east, they talk like crazy, and I mean CRAZY!! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pinke123]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 5th 2008 3:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Study sez Americans send twice as many text messages as Europeans, twice as prone to thumb failure]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</guid><description><![CDATA[You might wanna try re-wording that - teenagers in Europe have been texting like crazy for years.<br><br>Of course, this is done by the number of texts sent per subscriber, so the figures will be skewed in some way depending on the proliferation of mobile phones in different markets.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Iain]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 5th 2008 6:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Study sez Americans send twice as many text messages as Europeans, twice as prone to thumb failure]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/05/study-sez-americans-send-twice-as-many-text-messages-as-european/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think it is due to the pricing of messaging plans in the US vs. Europe.  Heck, I had unlimited for free on Sprint, why wouldn't I text.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephan D.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 6th 2008 12:10AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>