If someone sends you a text message (SSM) while your cell phone is turned off, when you turn your phone on, will the message arrive? Or will it be lost forever?
Mine show up when I turn the phone on.
I have an iPhone and texts are there waiting for me. Kinda like how your e-mail is still waiting for you even if your 'puter is off.
K, thank you. I thought so, but wasn’t sure. 
(I have a blackberry.)
ThelmaLou, it should be noted though that most carriers (carriers being Verizon, Sprint, ATT, I only have experience with ATT myself) will not deliver the messages should your phone be turned off for prolonged periods of several days at a time. So if you’re gone for a week overseas, you may not get all or many of your text messages that were sent several days previously. But if the phone is off for a day, or a half day while you travel? Yep, you’re sure to get 'em all.
Right, there’s a limit to how long the messages will hang around. In the tariff structures I work with, there’s often a branch for “expired” messages that gives the sender a refund once the system decides the message isn’t going to go through.
Thanks for those extra notes. I only had my phone off for a few hours.
I don’t know what happens if someone sends you a Same Sex Marriage, but if they send you a Short Message Service (SMS) then it will arrive the next time you switch the phone on. 