What does sms mean on a mobile phone ?

Question

Everyone is talking about sms.

Answer 1

SMS is Short Message Service (SMS) is a communications protocol allowing the interchange of short text messages between mobile telephone devices.

SMS as used on modern handsets was originally defined as part of the GSM series of standards in 1985 as a means of sending messages of up to 160 characters (including spaces), to and from GSM mobile handsets. Since then, support for the service has expanded to include alternative mobile standards such as ANSI CDMA networks and Digital AMPS, as well as satellite and landline networks. Most SMS messages are mobile-to-mobile text messages, though the standard supports other types of broadcast messaging as well.

See here for more detail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_messa...

Answer 2

SMS = "Short message service" = text messaging

MMS = "Multimedia message service" = picture messaging

Answer 3

Short Message Service (You can send messages Mobile to Mobile / CDMA phones. 1 SMS can be a max upto 160 charactors / letters.