Derrick
03-01-2011, 04:20 PM
A Sacramento Country, US teenager recently racked up 303 398 SMS’s in only one month on her iPhone. This works out to roughly seven messages every minute for thirty days.
Crystal Wiski, whose mother recently bought her an iPhone, said it was due to the fact that “I’m popular, I can’t help it”.
Crystal’s mother, Jacky Wiski was astounded at the sheer number of messages that her daughter managed to send in only one month “Oh my God, that’s unbelievable; she must text while she’s sleeping”. Fortunately she had the foresight to take out an unlimited text package for her daughter. If she hadn’t the bill would have exceeded USD30 000 (calculated at USD0.10 per message).
This would have come to a total of roughly R250 500.
One would expect Crystal to little time for anything else but texting, this has proven untrue. She holds a 40 hour a week job at her local Mc Donald’s and gets straight A’s in her schoolwork.
After receiving her iPhone a month ago Crystal’s friends encouraged her to “text your little thumbs off”, and she took up the challenge.
If Crystal sleeps the average 8 hours per day recommended for teenagers then she would have to send 10.5 messages per minute in her waking hours to reach 300 000l. That is roughly a message every 6 seconds.
The iPhone has proven particularly popular among the youth of the world, especially in the US. Despite this, NPD (a well known market research company in the US) reports have shown that in the first quarter of 2009 it was unseated as the favourite smartphone in America by the Blackberry Curve 8900.
Crystal Wiski, whose mother recently bought her an iPhone, said it was due to the fact that “I’m popular, I can’t help it”.
Crystal’s mother, Jacky Wiski was astounded at the sheer number of messages that her daughter managed to send in only one month “Oh my God, that’s unbelievable; she must text while she’s sleeping”. Fortunately she had the foresight to take out an unlimited text package for her daughter. If she hadn’t the bill would have exceeded USD30 000 (calculated at USD0.10 per message).
This would have come to a total of roughly R250 500.
One would expect Crystal to little time for anything else but texting, this has proven untrue. She holds a 40 hour a week job at her local Mc Donald’s and gets straight A’s in her schoolwork.
After receiving her iPhone a month ago Crystal’s friends encouraged her to “text your little thumbs off”, and she took up the challenge.
If Crystal sleeps the average 8 hours per day recommended for teenagers then she would have to send 10.5 messages per minute in her waking hours to reach 300 000l. That is roughly a message every 6 seconds.
The iPhone has proven particularly popular among the youth of the world, especially in the US. Despite this, NPD (a well known market research company in the US) reports have shown that in the first quarter of 2009 it was unseated as the favourite smartphone in America by the Blackberry Curve 8900.