The phrase "ability to text" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skill or capability to send text messages, typically in the context of communication technology.
Example: "Her ability to text quickly and clearly has made her an effective communicator in our group."
Alternatives: "skill in texting" or "capability to send messages".
He also says he believes that the ability to text in their own language would give people a powerful reason to learn to read.
But precisely because of the nifty features they offer, like the ability to text photos, stream video and provide GPS directions, the radio spectrum is looking as crowded as Times Square on New Year's Eve.
With extra built in functionality, like book covers with search results, permanent URLs for each item, and the ability to text or email a title, location, and call number for an item, it's a must-see!
Now when you upload your video to YouTube and share it on Facebook, it will sound as good as it looks... .. iPhone Location-based chat-app WhosHere has been ported to Android, promising the ability to text and swap pictures with "new and interesting people nearby", whether for romantic or platonic purposes.
A week before he got married to Carla, Nicolas is reported to have texted Cécilia: 'If you come back, I'll call it all of.' (Denied by the President). For a man known for his sudden flare-ups and his ability to text away in the middle of an audience with the Pope in the Sistine Chapel or a state visit to the King of Saudi Arabia, it seemed perfectly possible.
One feature that's missing from the iOS app, though, is the ability to text with your contacts from within Messenger.
What we say: FireChat seemed like an innovative novelty when it came out, with the ability to text-chat to people even when internet access was down.
This is important, because the feature at the centre of the scary Facebook messages – Angela's ability to text-chat with users – is turned off when Child Mode is toggled on.
Tinder was a bona-fide craze this year: a dating app showing you people nearby who might be a match, with a hot-or-not style swiping interface to indicate interest, and the ability to text-chat to matches before deciding whether to meet.
Other researchers have pointed to the ability to text-mine syllabi (Kousha and Thelwall, 2015b), book reviews (Zuccala et al., 2015; Kousha and Thelwall, 2015c) and Mendeley bookmarks (Mohammadi et al., 2016) as ways to track the "flavors" of educational impact, public popularity, and scholarly readership and intent to cite, respectively.
The software will include the ability to text-message and tap into the network to see what others are listening to.
