Question for people who use cell-phone text messaging ...

[sholio]

Do cell phones save your old text messages so that you can retrieve and read them even if you don't have reception? Or do you need to be able to connect to your service provider to read a saved message? Actually, come to think of it, a voice message might work better in this instance, so are voice messages -- after you've retrieved and listened to them, of course -- saved locally or on some kind of server somewhere?

(It's for something I'm writing, of course. I don't have a cell and don't know enough about how they work!)

ETA: Question answered, thank you!

Comments

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

You can (to add to the answers you already have) call into the voicemail server from any phone, however - so you don't need it to be your cell phone / a cell phone (it can be a land line) to get them. You can just call your own number, and then interrupt your own greeting (usually by hitting the # key) and it will take you to your voicemail menu.

[sholio]

Ah, thank you very much! :) It does make sense that you would have that option if the messages are kept on a server.

All these answers are making me kinda want to write something in which cell phones play a major role in the plot (as opposed to a brief, minor scene, as is the case here *g*).