Messaging and Internet
With wireless service and your phone's messaging and data capabilities, you have the opportunity
to share information through many different channels and accounts, including Gmail (Google),
personal and corporate email, text and multimedia messaging, social networking accounts, and
Hangouts.
Text and Multimedia Messaging
With text messaging (SMS), you can send and receive instant text messages between your
wireless phone and another messaging-ready phone.
Multimedia messages, or MMS, can contain text and pictures, recorded voice, audio or video files,
picture slideshows, contact cards (vCard), or appointments (vCalendar).
See your service plan for applicable charges for messaging.
Send a Text Message
Quickly compose and send text messages on your phone.
1. From home, tap Messaging
2. On the Messaging screen, tap New message
The Compose screen opens.
3. Fill in one or more recipients. You can:
Enter phone numbers directly in the Enter recipient field. If you're sending the message to
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several phone numbers, separate the phone numbers with a comma. As you enter
information, any matching phone numbers from your contacts list are displayed. Tap a
match to enter that number or address directly.
Tap the
icon, and then select the contacts to whom you want to send the message.
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You can also select contact groups as recipients. When you have selected all the message
recipients, tap
4. Tap the "Type message" box and then start composing your message.
Note: A counter appears above the Send button (
entered and how many characters are left. Once you go over the 160-character limit, a new
message is created but automatically joined into one when received.
5. When done, tap
Messaging and Internet
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to send the text message.
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