I guess this begs the question: "What if you're both?"

Aside from the whole iPhone-without-a-carrier hypothesis, there's some amazing (to me) detail on how carriers make ludicrous sums of money on SMS and MMS services in this article.

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Totally great, Kickstarter'd gizmo for your iPhone.