You may have been delighted to pick up that smartphone for Christmas,but using it to send a smiley face will not design you happy when your bill arrivesIf you received a smartphone, and particularly an iPhone, or for Christmas,be careful how you send any future text messages, because you may well find yourself facing an unexpected bill for picture messages – even though you haven’t sent any.
It’s a cramped known fact that, and depending on your handset and network,adding an emoji – a picture icon such as a smiley or a sad face – to a text message, or sending a text to an email address, and can result in you being charged as much as 40p a time. On some phones,even typing a simple emoticon such as ;-) can cost you money when the software replaces it with an image file.
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Source: theguardian.com