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Short messages overview
Your phone is capable of sending and receiving short text messages. The short message service (SMS) facilities provided by your phone are as follows:
Flash messages
Flash messages, or 'on screen' messages, can contain up to 160 text characters and are displayed on your phone's screen immediately they
are received. If a flash message contains a phone number, the number can be called or stored as if you had keyed it in yourself. Your phone
will store up to 3 of these flash messages in temporary memory and these can be viewed via the menu system (see below). If a flash message
is received whilst you are viewing another flash message from the menu, the flash message will not be stored in your phone's memory until
your phone is in the standby or in-call state.
Standard messages
Your phone can send and receive standard messages, each containing 160 text characters. The phone can store up to 255 received messages
on your SIM card. You can choose to overwrite messages that have been read when the SIM is full or set your phone to automatically send a
message to the service centre that your SIM memory is full. When the service centre has been informed that your SIM is full, it will not send
your phone any further messages until your SIM has some free message space. Your phone will automatically notify the service centre there
is more space and message reception will resume.
When you send a message you can attach a receipt request. This will cause the service centre to send you a message indicating whether your
original message was delivered successfully or not.
Area messages (cell broadcast messages)
These messages are sent by the network to all phones in a certain area and can be viewed in the normal way (see page 57).
Quick view
When your phone receives a standard message, you will be notified by the SMS icon (
immediately or press C to return to the standby screen. See Viewing messages on page 52 for more viewing options.
Message dictionary
This facility allows you to create and store phrases (e.g. 'meet me at') which can be placed in your outgoing messages. Up to 999 characters
can be stored in the message dictionary. These messages can be entered using the
dictionary on page 54 for more details.
Options
Your phone's SMS facilities can be customised to work the way you wish (e.g. Autosave, Autosend, Autodelete, etc.). Details of these options
and how to set them up can be found in Message options on page 55.
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) being displayed. Press
to view the message
MENU
or
key during message entry. See Message
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The Short Message Service is
network dependant.
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Only networks can send Flash
messages.
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Because flash messages are stored in your
phone's temporary memory, they will be
lost when you turn your phone off.
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Although your phone can store up to
255 messages, your SIM card may
limit this to a smaller number.
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