You may have stumbled across an article last week by TUAW that highlighted an iPhone 3GS user’s (“Lgvoyagerguy”) massive 13,000 page AT&T phone bill. The reason for the Amazon execution was the seemingly impossible “record” of 662,258 text messages being sent…in ONE month. We all know how AT&T loves to save paper. However, looking at the numbers in greater detail, that 662,258 text messages in one month breaks down to roughly 22,075 per day which breaks down to ~15-16 text messages per minute. While it would be a challenge to send 15 text messages in one minute, it isn’t out of the question. Though it’s worth noting that text messages would be a character or two at most. Though plausible, keeping up this rate for a full month is impractical and likely the result of machine intervention. What exactly is that?
Lgvoyagerguy most likely had help by signing up for text message based alerts — every single one he could possibly find I imagine. When you’re getting constant texts from outside sources, the number can definitely get racked up. Though it wouldn’t in the case that we didn’t have to pay for incoming content such as texts, calls, etc. But that’s an entirely different issue. So in the end we’re left second guessing this claim. While the video over at TUAW does in fact prove this guy really sent/received 662,258 text messages and did receive an equally large amount of tree’s in a box, the “real world” ability to hit this number is anything but. Thoughts?
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