Comment Re:The Finns also use cell phones in AOL-ish ways (Score 1) 186
Actually here in Finland we don't use the soda machines or car washes with cell phones either. There has been some massive hype about those things for a few years though.
The jokes etc. really are what people do with sms messages (in addition to the chatting of course). Lottery numbers are of course already available :) but I don't know if the celebrity gossip are.
Anyway keeping in touch with friends using messages instead of calling them is at least partly a consequence of that messages are cheaper than calling. Well.. it is if you have just a little to say. I knew a girl whose cell phone bill was something like 4000 mk (~650 USD) for a month. She *really* wrote her text messages quickly ;)
The jokes etc. really are what people do with sms messages (in addition to the chatting of course). Lottery numbers are of course already available
Anyway keeping in touch with friends using messages instead of calling them is at least partly a consequence of that messages are cheaper than calling. Well.. it is if you have just a little to say. I knew a girl whose cell phone bill was something like 4000 mk (~650 USD) for a month. She *really* wrote her text messages quickly
