Phones change and handsets get altered every now and then. The market for mobile phones and allied services seems to be changing the very landscape of mobile telephony. Take for instance messaging phones that have become all the rage, as people like to use the QWERTY keyboards to quickly message across office, friends, lovers, family and who have you? After all, we live in the jet age, and people do not have either the time or the patience to bother fumbling for keys on the keyboard and having to type and re-type words before messages are sent across. People would much rather prefer messaging phones with miniature keyboards that are smaller replicas of the larger computer keyboards.Another thing about messaging phones is that they straddle the gap between the low cost basic phones and the high end costly smartphones. After all, people may not want the higher end wi-fi phones which cost a bomb, but their text needs cannot also be met by the basic phones without the QWERTY keyboard. But there is a trend where some of the phones do have GPS as well as other features that are present in smartphones. It now seems as if some carriers want to cash in on the popularity of messaging phones and start charging for some of the services on offer where there may be an overlap between the messaging phones and smartphones.

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