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Messages
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Messages
From the Messages menu
(Menu 6)
, you can send and receive a range of
different message types from your mobile phone, including:
Text Message:
Short Message Service (SMS) allows you to exchange
text messages with other text messaging-capable phones.
Picture Message:
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) allows you to
exchange messages containing text, graphics, and audio attachments
with other MMS capable phones. You can also send messages to email
addresses.
Broadcast Messages:
messages received from your service provider
containing information related to a specific area (cell).
You can also use your phone to access
Voice Mail
(recorded voice)
messages.
Create and Send a Message
Use the Create New Message menu (Menu 6.1) to compose new text
(SMS) and picture (MMS) messages and send them to other messaging-
capable phones.
Create and Send a Message
To create and send a text or picture message:
1. From the Idle screen, press [
] and select
Messages
Create
New Message
.
2. Type your message in the message window. The number in the top left
corner of the screen displays the number of characters still available.
For further information on entering characters, see “Entering Text” on
page 28.