Section 7: Messaging; Types Of Messages; Creating And Sending Text Messages - Samsung Focus S SGH-I937 User Manual

Section 7: Messaging

This section describes how to send and receive different types of
messages. It also includes the features and functionality
associated with messaging.

Types of Messages

Your phone provides the following message types:
Text Messages
•
• Multimedia (Picture) Messages
Email Messages
•
Online Messages
•
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.
Important!: When creating a message, adding an image to a text message
changes the message from a text message to a multimedia
message.
When messages are received, the number of messages displays
in the Messaging icon on the Home screen.

Creating and Sending Text Messages

To create a new message and send it to another mobile phone or
an email address:
From the Home screen, touch Messaging
1.
– or –
Touch Messaging
.
Touch new
2.
Touch the To field to manually enter a recipient. Touch the
3.
123 key on the on-screen keypad to enter a phone number.
– or –
Touch the button to the right of the To field to select a
recipient from your People list. Valid entries must have a
wireless phone number. Contacts with only an email
address are not listed.
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