I’ve now downloaded a huge range of applications from free fun stuff like the obligatory ipint thingy, games such as Monkey Ball and Angry Birds, to a few productivity apps.

But it got me thinking: which is the best app? What do I use most regularly?

I started looking over the apps I’d downloaded and compiling a list of my favourites but then it hit me. There is one I use every single day, multiple times, without even thinking. Text Messaging!

Yes, predictably this blog is about SMS.

But you can’t blame me because it’s true. It’s the oldest and most widely used data app in the world with over 2.4 billion active users. It’s become part of our culture spawning its own language, it exists on every phone, and there are no social, geographic or demographic barriers to its use. Even my Grandma uses it.

Here are some recent stats:

In the UK alone we send some 11 million texts per hour.

We sent a massive 874 million texts on New Year’s Eve alone.

Current predictions suggest a volume rise of 22% during 2010.

Over 90% of text messages are read within seconds of receiving them.

So there you have it, the undisputed king of apps, and as much as I love Angry Birds, I can’t see it ever competing for the top spot!

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For once I’m lost for words….let the cake eating commence!

Now although this will slot into our fun category in the blog this is no light hearted event. It’s sponsored by LG and offers prize money of US$100,000. There are 26 competitors from 13 different countries competing in teams of two.

Korea were the eventual winners followed by USA and Argentina.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj0_Kg-3M3c

Portuguese competitor Pedro Mateus managed to break the world record of texting the standard English paragraph used to measure texting speed using a single thumb in less than 2 minutes.

The interesting stat is one of the USA contestants is quoted as having sent 16,000 text messages in a single month (circa 533 a day), before her parents instructed her to take this down to a mere 10,000.

Surely it can’t be long before texting is an Olympic sport?

Innovative, exciting, and good fun.

Enjoy watching it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDExeXPxE-U

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I quote,

“At some point in the next year you will be contacted for your views on our overall service proposition”.

At some point during the next YEAR. Well thanks very much for the information.

Duly filed in the basket to my right.

Does anyone else get these letters?

Paper surveys

A few weeks ago I received a “how are we doing” type survey from one of our suppliers. It came through the post and contained about 4 pages of questions for me to fill in, and an SAE for the return. Needless to say it found its way into the waste paper basket. Not that I’m averse to completing a survey but the whole 4 pages of real paper just put me off.

Online surveys

Have they not heard of online surveys? A single monthly fee on surveymonkey would be cheaper than the stamps on the letters, not to mention the increased likelihood of me completing the survey.

The worst of both worlds?

Today’s occurrence wins though, I have just received a letter from a supplier, through the POST, asking me to take part in an ONLINE survey. To cap it off, they will be sending me an invitation to take part by e-mail in a few days time.

Clearly we need to spread the word about digital communication before there’s nothing left of the rainforest.

All I can wonder is how long it took him to type a 6 page text out.