Phone Messaging
April 15, 2003
T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual
112
Send Text Messages
You can send text messages by doing any of the following:
•
Compose a New Text Message
on page 112
•
Reply to a Text Message
on page 113
•
Forward a Text Message
on page 113
•
Resend a Text Message
on page 113
Compose a New Text Message
To write a new text message you must first open the Compose screen:
1
From the Browse Messages screen, press
Menu
then select
New Message...
[
+
N
]. The Compose
screen opens:
2
Complete your message:
•
To
field - Start typing the first or last name of a contact in the To field, and the Phone Messages
application will communicate with the Address Book and offer you completion suggestions (based on your
existing Address Book contacts). The suggestions appear in a pop-up menu. Use the wheel to highlight,
then press to select one of the address suggestions, or you can type a new one directly in the To field.
•
Message
body
- Type your message body; you can only type 160 characters. At the bottom of the screen
you’ll see a counter that keeps track of how many characters you’ve typed. Some special characters on the
keyboard cannot be used in a text message; these include brackets ([]), braces ({}), tildes (~), and carets
(^). If you happen to type one of the “illegal” characters, no entry will be made in the message body. A
sample message is shown below:
3
To
send
your message, do one of the following:
