If I use Apple IOS5 iMessage on my iPhone, it uses the Internet, and my cell provider does not see it as a used text message against my plan. If I use texting or sms clients, my carrier sees them as, and charges for them as, text messages.
Important to me and other users is: are my Pair messages text messages, for which I pay, or iMessages, for which I do not?
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