Many mobile operators never thought that Texto or Texting SMS Messages would see todays popularity. In Fact, it turns out for mobile users to have their phones and keep acting as private by sending sms instead of calling. Let me say that many lovers would send a SMS to their mates instead of calling them when they are playing poker or partying with some other mates.
Or many kids are messaging their parents instead of calling and let them discover that they are out of class.
How long does it take you to search on your mobile?
40 seconds and 41 key presses to enter a query.
The smaller your mobile phone is, the less likely are you going to use it for sending SMS.

A Google research paper * Query Suggestions for Mobile Search: Understanding Usage Patterns, Maryam Kamvar, Shumeet Baluja, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI), 2008.
The conclusion for small 9 keypad phones were as follows:
On those kinds of devices, we estimate that it takes an average of 40 seconds and 41 key presses to enter a query.
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