Text Messaging
February 12, 2002
T-Mobile Device Owner’s Manual
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10. Text Messaging
Text Messages is T-Mobile’s exclusive two-way text messaging application that lets you send, receive, and reply
to short text messages directly from your phone. It’s fun! Learn all about Text Messages by reading the topics in
this chapter:
Text Messages Preview Screen
From the Jump screen, with Text Messages highlighted, you will see a preview screen similar to the following:
The preview screen shows all your
unread
text messages in the order received, with the
message received
most recently on top
. If you click the wheel to open the Text Messages application, open any of the unread
messages, then return to the preview screen, you’ll see that the message you’ve opened has disappeared from
the preview screen list.
Note:
Text Messages messages are SMS messages that are delivered via the “Short Message Service”, also
referred to simply as “SMS”.
Text Messages Preferences
You can decide how the Text Messages application behaves on your own device. You make these settings by first
going to the Text Messages Preferences screen. Here’s how to open the Preferences screen:
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