What happens when your phone can't do that? I use a flip phone. It can't scan QR codes despite having a camera
It’s not something specific to a phone. It’s just a convenient method to enter your phone number.
So if there are any costs for sending this SMS it’s on you.
there shouldn’t be any remaining for the consumer today
unless you’re a real unfortunate soul.
Furthermore, carriers still charge each other for exchanging SMS traffic, though many of them just charge the difference rather than sending each other bills.
This approach is quite costly if you're out of the country, though. Sending an SMS is hit and miss when roaming in foreign enough networks, and each SMS can cost you a significant amount for exchanging 10 characters. Even receiving SMS messages far away from home can cost you money, which is a pain if you have a relative that could never get used to modern messaging services.
PS Has the bio trap snared any robots yet?!
There weren’t any infrastructure costs to sending the first SMS ever,
Infrastructure costs were marginal, near 0,
because SMS was just 140 bytes of text stuffed into already-occurring network traffic
between phone<->telco.
the VZ guys laughed and said it cost less than a penny for every 1M SMS.
Continuing that behavior until everybody’s grandma had iMessage, is a large portion of why I don’t trust a telco!
(Not building out the full range of rural etc network they promised to, while cashing all of the government subsidies, struck me wrong as well.)
It's a $0/month e-mail service.
If the price of entry is a single text message, I think that's fair.
So many companies - such as electric car charging stations - require this without considering failure modes and alternative workflows.
Also try squeezing the phone at various points to see if it pops the internal connector back in. You can find a repair video to see where the connector is.
I wonder if I could find a camera app that lets me select a different camera at app startup. The built in app closes with an error, unless I long click it and select "Take a selfie".
Ha, it worked! After opening in selfie mode, I can select manual mode in the stock camera app and use a different rear camera. But if I accidentally use the wrong settings, the whole app closes with an error.