> No calls, no voicemail, no email, no > apps, no touch. Rechargeable is a plus. I > envision something like 2-way pagers used > to work. Radio network or phone network > is not as much of a big deal to me.

So what is this device suppose to do if it doesn't connect to any wireless networks? Just take text notes?

Or, do you mean that you do want ONLY texting? But then you need all your friends to have one of these devices to text with you as well.

Texting phones & Blackberries, and only later, generic smartphones, replaced for 99% of all industies, pagers. Pagers are still a thing only for industies that never bothered changing or had some esoteric requirements (pagers are suppose to use a lower frequency that passes thru thick walls better.)

They still sell basic texting phones. SMS only