Mobile IM poised to overtake SMS, analysts say

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Geoff Brown @ May 28th 2006 9:42PM

I don't know. I have my doubts that mobile IM is going to totally replace SMS, if only for the sheer fact that mobile IM requires set up, while SMS is effectively set-up free. Sure, most of the younger gen is all ready to go via AIM, Yahoo etc... but I can still SMS my Mom a picture even if she has no idea what AIM even stands for. What I could see, however, would be changes to the SMS platform that incorporated a lot of what mobile IM has to offer (status, away messaging, graphics and such), sans user set-up.

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