Apparently they killed the announcement as well, for the blog link 404's now.
Posts by grawity
4 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2013
RIP Microsoft Clip Art – now you can fill your slides with web cat pics
Countless Belkin routers go TITSUP in massive mystery meltdown
New 'Cosmos' browser surfs the net by TXT alone
Monday 15th September 2014 09:31 GMT
Re: Bytes?
It should have been bits.
Though, the only two encodings I know in use by SMS messages are UCS-2 (16 bits * 70 characters) and GSM 03.38 (7 bits * 160 characters)...
While apparently there /is/ a mode for 8-bit bytes, it's meant for raw data and generally not used for regular text messages.