While mobile Flash messages can be fun and are mainly used by network operators to send across important alerts - unethical practices used by network operators like Vodafone India where a user is bombarded with these flash messages is not only annoying, drains phone battery but the users is also charged Rs. 3/- when they mistakenly click "OK" to dismiss the alert message (the real motive behind bugging users with these unnecessary alerts). This is no less than stealing money as nor the subscriber opted for these messages and neither they are being told about the charges associated with these, luckily this can be deactivated as demonstrated below.

Flash SMS messages or privileged Class '0' text-messages is a special type of message which appears directly onto phone's screen bypassing the usual 'Inbox' route, this type of messages are often used by mobile operators to display information on user screens grabbing immediate attention. The good thing is there are free software's availble to utilize this for all major mobile platforms like Symbian, Android and iPhone, today we will be reviewing one such free utility for Apple iPhone. Free Cydia app. "Flash SMS" as the name suggest allows iPhone users to send Flash SMS Text messages which displays directly onto receivers phone screen.