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Sure, but GSM was far from the first cellphone technology. I doubt very much phones like this had texting.  |
Fair enough, but then it's really the technology that has changed and progressed. Nobody makes black and white TV sets anymore (far as I know), or tube radios, but that doesn't mean that TV sets and radios as such have died out, or been replaced by multi purpose devices.
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... it remains a communication device.
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Exactly.
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I used to carry a pager when I was on call, but a number of years ago they switched and are now notifying people by text message instead.
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Same here, although it must be said that pagers were never much in general use and largely restricted to very specific user groups (doctors in hospitals, volunteer firemen and the like). For the general population it's been cell phones forever (professionals took some exception to them at first because SMS are a best-effort service, i.e. delivery is not guaranteed, there's no priority service / guaranteed bandwith, etc. I suppose they've learned to live with those shortcomings by now)