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

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I had to get one when I spent a year without a homebase, and I won't deny that there are plenty of times it's come in handy. But I find them uncomfortable to talk on for long periods of time and hate them in general principle (no, I don't want to be always reachable - which is why people are always accusing me of never answering my phone) and mostly I hate how people abuse them. Sometimes, though, they really are highly useful.