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Hi. I am in China and finding that I want to text message folks back in the states. I am using a local sim card for my local calls. I am trying to figure out how to send messages on my ATT&T phone ( or my computer) that is in the airplane mode. I would like to send and receive message to folks that don't have We chat and QQ. Friends and coworkers. In the states I use Facebook messenger and I guess the other one is AT&T messenger. I can access the internet on my ATT&T via Wi-fi. That doesn't see to help me out. Any suggestions. Danb PS. AT&T is offering me an international plan for 40 dollars a month. Free text message and a think $1.00 a minute for calls: Dan : The AT&T Passport includes unlimited text messages, rate of $1.00/minute, unlimited Wifi and 200mb of data (Overage: $0.25/mb). With a one-time fee of $40.00, it will apply for up to 30 days. Dan : We also have a higher data bucket that are Dan : The AT&T Passport SILVER includes unlimited text messages, preferred rate of $0.50/minute, unlimited Wifi and 300mb of data (Overage: $0.20/mb). With a one-time fee of $60.00, it will apply for up to 30 days.
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So, my fiancee is in the U.S. now. She brought her mobile phone from China (which is quad-band GSM). We needed to buy her an American SIM card. I decided since she doesn't yet have a lot of American friends, she probably wouldn't be using it too much. The main use would be to send text messages (sms) to friends back in China. For talking to her family in friends in China, she'll be using Skype (I already pay $10 a month for unlimited). So I decided to go with a prepaid card. Looked like the only options were AT&T and T-Mobile, and T-Mobile was cheaper. So I bought the T-Mobile card ($10) and a $100 prepaid card (which gets you $.10 a minute). Well, guess what. English text messages work perfectly. When she tries to send one or I try to send her a Chinese text message (with Chinese characters), they appear to just evaporate into the aether. Nothing happens, but no error messages or anything bounced back. T-Mobile was pretty useless for help. I have AT&T (through work with an iPhone) and text messages seem to work fine for me in Chinese. She'd send me some and I'd send some back when my fiancee was in China. I tried sending one to myself and it worked. I also tried sending a Chinese character text to my brother with Verizon and there was no luck. Anybody know what's going on? Maybe AT&T supports Chinese characters, but T-Mobile (and probably Verizon) do not. I wish I'd known this, as I possibly just wasted $110 (many signs say no-refunds for pre-paid, but maybe I can convince them or yell enough to get a refund). Seems like they should have told me about this considering they popped the card into a phone with Chinese characters on it and since my fiancee was with me speaking in Chinese. Or maybe there is just a setting I need to change? That's probably wishing too much though. She might just be having to type pinyin, though she doesn't like it. She seems to be one of the few Chinese people who uses one of those other systems for entry (learned it with an old job and claims it is much faster). Thanks.
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Hi, I don't know if this is the right area for this question but.. Has anyone purchased a cell phone in the US that can read/write Chinese characters? I was thinking about this recently as my fiance loves to TEXT with her family. Each txt costs a few cents so maybe that trend will go down when she arrives. I currently have a blackberry that does just "ok" with reading Chinese txt but still cannot enter txt. I was even thinking about buying a chinese phone and pop in a T-mobile sim card. Anyone else go through this?
