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VIDEO: Messi and Ronaldo in trash-talkin' text-off to promote El Clasico

Android? We would have had Ronaldo down as an iPhone man.

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Jan 12th 2013, 10:20 AM

Happy bday 2 u: text messaging turns 20

Twenty years ago today, the first ever text message was sent – reading ‘Merry Christmas’.

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Dec 3rd 2012, 8:45 AM