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Messages
Applications
Messages
Learn how to send and receive
different messages using the
default messaging app on your
phone.
Types of Messages
Your default Messaging app provides the following
message types:
•
Text Messages (SMS)
•
Multimedia Messages (MMS)
The Short Message Service (SMS) lets you send
and receive text messages to and from other mobile
phones or email addresses. To use this feature, you
may need to subscribe to your service provider’s
message service.
The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) lets you
send and receive multimedia messages (such as
picture, video, and audio messages) to and from
other mobile phones or email addresses. To use this
feature, you may need to subscribe to your service
provider’s multimedia message service.
Messaging icons are displayed at the top of the
screen and indicate when messages are received
and their type.
Create and Send Messages
This section describes how to create a send a
message using the Messaging app.
1. From a Home screen, tap
Apps
>
Messages
.
2. Tap
Compose
.
3. Tap the
Enter recipients
field to manually enter
a recipient or tap
Add Recipient
to select a
recipient from your Contacts. You can also select
the recipient based on Groups, Favorites, or
Logs.
4. If adding a recipient from your Contacts, tap the
contact to place a check mark then tap
DONE
.
The contact will be placed in the recipients field.
5. Enter additional recipients by separating each
entry with a semicolon (;) and then using the
previous procedure. More recipients can be
added at any time before the message is sent.
For the Group option, if the number of recipients
is less than 10, all members in the group will be
added. You will need to delete any unnecessary
members in the list by selecting the trash can
icon and deleting unwanted entries.
6. Tap the
Enter message
field and use the
onscreen keyboard to enter a message.
7. Tap
Add emoticons
to choose an available
emoticon from an onscreen list and then add
it into your message (at the cursor location) if
desired.
8. Review the message and tap
Send
.
Note
: If you exit a message before you send it, the
message is automatically saved as a draft.