![]() This is possible because when you delete a text message, it doesn’t actually get erased. Some cell phone text message software enable you to recover texts you thought were deleted from your cell phone. The app displays the contents of the SMS file organized into four categories: ADDRESS (the screen name of the person with whom I am exchanging texts), DIR (the direction the text in the conversation is going, whether it was sent in to me or I sent it out to the ADDRESS), DATE (the date and time the text was sent) and TEXT (the body of the text itself). I have a nice $1.99 app for my smartphone that displays the text messages from my phone and gives me the option to save them all off the phone as a single file (with a choice from a few different file formats) on my computer. There are many software resources available to access, view and manipulate the files. You can either transfer the files off your phone via a cable into a computer or transfer the files wirelessly via Bluetooth. Smart phones give you more control over text messages. “SIM Card Reader” on Flickr by busy.pochi You can even display it through a browser text files get along well with several different programs. The “Text” - or TXT - format of the text messages is one of the least complex of all file formats, so you can display the contents of a text message file with a basic text editor. You pop the SIM card into the reader, display the card contents and copy the text messages to the computer. A reader is an inexpensive device that plugs into a computer. You have to open the phone, remove its SIM card and display the card’s contents through a SIM card reader. Saving text messages is more difficult for basic phones. If you want to save text/ SMS messages, you have to transfer them off the phone and onto whatever storage medium you put your personal digital stuff. The problem is that saving text messages off a cell phone is not quite easy or convenient.Ĭell – or mobile – phones could be loosely divided into two types: “basic” and “smart.” Both types store text, contacts and other information either on a drive or a detachable SIM card. ![]() And since we value and save other text correspondence - such as letters and email - it seems natural that we might want to save text messages too. 1st Class Seth Laughter, 2SFAB PAO NCOICĪs choppy and terse as cell-phone texting is, it still qualifies as correspondence. ![]()
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