Most Chinese learned of the epidemic not from their government but from cellphone messages.

By phone, at first, leaving cellphone messages that sounded like someone whispering in a gale, muffled wet sounds that never quite resolved into words.

Moments later, Yumi's friend Yoko picks up a mysterious cellphone message that appears to have been made three days in the future.

He is a hikikomori who rarely leaves his room, and usually communicates with others with cellphone message or e-mails.

Originally, Ryūnosuke designed Maid to filter and automatically reply to his cellphone messages and e-mails to save him time.

She checked her cellphone messages at 4:37 pm.

After games, Tim has found as many as 17 cellphone messages from Matt offering virtual pass-by-pass encouragement and critiques.

Kline opened her invite via a cellphone message after class at her high school in Encinitas, Calif.

When she checked her cellphone messages just after 9:30, she heard her husband say: "Dana, it's me.

When he left the restaurant he received a cellphone message from members of the owners' bargaining group.