Originally Posted by david16:
“MMS's ought to be a lot cheaper than they are but not at the low rate of a standard text (or SMS).
Adding in even one emoji to your message on your messaging app you are going to send off does not still make it a text message. It becomes an MMS with that one little emoji in your message even if you may think of it as being a text message/SMS.
Is it really worth adding in the emoji to your message if it means you are going to be fleeced for it.”
Only if your phone (was mainly a Samsung problem iirc) converts the emoticon into a picture message or you're using some badly programmed 3rd party keyboard.
For example:
Quote:
“There has been some increased interest around emojis/emoticons on the EE network. Here's some information to help you understand how emojis in text messages work.
If you have an older phone, if you've downloaded a new keyboard app, or if the settings on your phone are set up in a certain way, your phone may convert an SMS that has an emoji in it to a picture message, which may not be included in your plan.
This isn't something that EE or any network controls, as it's down to how your device works, but it's straight forward for you to change this, for example on some Samsung devices it's as easy as changing the input mode from Automatic to Unicode.
For advice on how to manage the settings on your device, follow the steps on - The EE Help Page on converting text messages to picture messages.”
https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/Textin...ns/td-p/401281
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“Mobile phone users who send a smiley or sad face, or any type of picture icon, in a text could be stung with massive charges – with one user billed more than £200 as a result of using these emojis.
Our research found the main issue is with pre-April 2014 Samsung handsets where users have racked up huge bills after adding emojis – picture icons such as
rather than the emoticon equivalent of
– into text messages, despite having packages with all-inclusive text allowances (see our Mobile phone cost cutting guide for more ways to save).
This is known to affect the Samsung Galaxy S1, S2, S3, S4, plus the Galaxy Note 1, 2, 3 and Galaxy Ace. On these handsets, when an emoji is added to a text message it is automatically converted into a picture message. These aren't usually included in users' packages and can cost up to 40p each depending on the network provider.
Samsung says every device launched since last April has a default setting which means emojis can be sent in a text, however it adds that a warning message is displayed to inform users of older handsets that their message will be converted.”
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/new...sending-emojis