My iPhone 4 text messages to none iPhone phones aren't working correctly

When I send a text to my friends with Droid phones the text character count doesn't seem to matter. I can send a text which in my iPhone is 320 characters which is in most phones had been two text... 160 characters had seemed to be commonly one text message on many phones for a long time. Now with the Droid smart phones the 320 or 160 character count doesn't seem to matter. My texts get broken up into three or four on their phones. Also picture texts files from my phone to theres seems to large for them to view quickly if at all. Many of them use an App for texting called Handcent. I looked into this but it appears to use this on my Apple phone I have to hijack my phone if you will otherwise its incompatable. I'm the only Apple user in my crowd if you could help me find a solution so when I text my friends its fun and easy for them to recieve my texts again that would be great!
BTW, I do have my MMS turned on in my phone already.
Thanks!!!

Do you have the "send as SMS" setting turned on maybe that's the problem you might just have turned on your iMessage setting instead

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