The Kin phones have a means for stopping the auto delivery of MMS messaging, but there seems to be nothing that can be done with SMS. I do not have a texting plan and when somebody inadvertantly sends me a text or expects that I do have texting, it appears as a balloon on my home screen and costs me $0.20 a pop.

I have had to block text on My Verizon, but there should be a means on the phone to just show that you have a text like most other phones and you can choose to download it or not.