Analyst Predicts the Death of SMS

by Jordan Yerman | July 27, 2007 at 11:30 am

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The days of SMS are numbered now that mobile email access is becoming a commodity, research firm Gartner says.

Long the preserve of businessmen in power suits, mobile email is about to hit the masses with one in five email users accessing their accounts wirelessly by 2010, according to Gartner.

Monica Blasso, the firm's research vice-president, said mobile email had moved beyond the BlackBerry and was increasingly a feature of even low-cost mobile phones, driving consumer adoption.

I agree that email will grow more prevalent in mobile-to-mobile communication, but, in the case of SMS, the medium is the message... sometimes I find that a txt can be just the right way to convey a thought or send a quick g'day or let someone know where I am.

(I don't, however type "you" as "u" or eschew punctuation, but you probably guessed that by now)