Menu Functions; Messages (Menu 1); Sending A Text Message (Write Messages); Writing And Sending A Text Message - Nokia 8250 User Manual

6. Menu functions

Messages
(Menu 1)
Sending a text message
(Write messages)
Shortcut: Menu 1-1. With The Short
Message Service (SMS) network
service you can send short text
messages to phones which have SMS
capability.
Before you can send any messages,
you need to store the number of your
Messages centre in menu 'Message
settings'. You will receive this
number from your service provider
when you subscribe to the Short
Message Service.
Writing and sending a text
message
Within the Write messages
you can write and edit text messages
of up to 160 characters. You have
two methods of writing messages:
• the method used traditionally in
mobile phones, indicated by
and
• another called "predictive text
input", indicated by
1. In the Messages
Write messages
Select.
2. Key in a message.
menu
,
.
menu, scroll to
and press
M e n u f u n c t i o n s
You can use the traditional text
input, described in 'Storing a
phone number with a name', on
page 9.
Alternatively, use the predictive
text input. See the following
section, 'Predictive text input'.
3. Press Options to display the
following functions
• Send to send the message.
• Dictionary to set the
predictive text input on and
select the language.
• Send by set
message to a preselected set -
see below.
• Save to save the message in
the Outbox
time.
• Clear screen
characters that you have
keyed in from the display.
4. To send the message, select
and press OK.
5. Enter the recipient's phone
number, or
recall the phone number from
phone book by pressing Search.
Find the desired number and
press OK.
6. Press OK to send the message.
to send the
for use at a later
to remove all the
Send
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