
You can either transfer the files off your phone via a cable into a computer or transfer the files wirelessly via Bluetooth. Smart phones give you more control over text messages. “SIM Card Reader” on Flickr by busy.pochi You can even display it through a browser text files get along well with several different programs. The “Text” - or TXT - format of the text messages is one of the least complex of all file formats, so you can display the contents of a text message file with a basic text editor. You pop the SIM card into the reader, display the card contents and copy the text messages to the computer. A reader is an inexpensive device that plugs into a computer. You have to open the phone, remove its SIM card and display the card’s contents through a SIM card reader. Saving text messages is more difficult for basic phones. If you want to save text/ SMS messages, you have to transfer them off the phone and onto whatever storage medium you put your personal digital stuff. The problem is that saving text messages off a cell phone is not quite easy or convenient.Ĭell – or mobile – phones could be loosely divided into two types: “basic” and “smart.” Both types store text, contacts and other information either on a drive or a detachable SIM card. And since we value and save other text correspondence - such as letters and email - it seems natural that we might want to save text messages too. 1st Class Seth Laughter, 2SFAB PAO NCOICĪs choppy and terse as cell-phone texting is, it still qualifies as correspondence.
