Ericsson SH888 User Manual page 27

For example:
• To enter an A, press 2 once.
• To enter a B, press 2 twice.
Tip! To enter a digit, you can press and hold down the
numeric key.
To enter the second letter on the numeric keys directly,
press and hold the upper volume key and press the
desired numeric key. To enter the third letter, press the
lower volume key instead.
To enter small letters:
l
Enter the letter, for example an 'A', and then
*
press . An 'a' appears.
Small letters will now appear until you press
again.
If you enter more characters than can be seen in the dis-
play, the first characters will be replaced by the l sym-
bol. To check the first characters you have entered:
l
Press the navigation key
the characters you want to view.
Note! If there is a pause of more than 120 seconds between
entering characters, the phone will return to the
standby menu.
Sending Messages
Œ
From the 'Mail' menu, select 'Send message'.
'New' appears.
L R

Press
YES
Ž
Enter your message. (See 'To Enter Letters').
You can scroll through the message text with
the navigation key and erase characters to the
left of the cursor or insert characters in the cur-
sor's position.

When you have completed your message, press
. 'Request reply?' appears.
YES

If you want the recipient to reply to the
message, press
Press to enter the menu system. See inside the cover.
until you reach
LEFT
. An empty display appears.
. If not, press .
YES NO
L R
Note!
*
Reading a Message
4 7
2 8
R
l
‘
Enter the recipient's phone number or recall it
from the phone book. To access the 'Phone
book' menu press .
LEFT
’
You now have two options:
• To send the message now, press
• To store the message for later use, press
The message is now stored in the messages
memory.
If you decide to send the message later, the message is
labelled 'To Send' instead of 'Sent' when you access the
message in the 'Read messages' menu.
The same procedure is used with all types of messages,
for example e-mail, fax etc. Check with your network
operator which message types you can use.
When you receive a message, you hear a sound and the
display informs you of it. The indicator light on the top
of the phone rapidly blinks green.
You now have two options:
• If you want to read the message at once, press
.
• If you want to read the message later on, press
. The message will be stored in the Messages
NO
memory and a letter icon (Mm) will appear on the
left at the bottom of the standby display.
If you pressed , you will see the first three lines of
YES
the message, showing you who the message is from
and when it was received. 'New' stands for a new un-
read message.
If the message is older than 24 hours, the time will be
replaced with the date the message arrived. However,
you can toggle between the date and time by pressing
*
the key.
• To read the first line of the message, press
.
YES
.
NO
YES
.
YES
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