Messaging; Send A Message; New Messages Notification; Managing Message Conversations - Samsung Galaxy S III User Manual

Messaging

With text messaging (SMS), you can send and receive text messages between your phone and
another phone that supports messaging.
Multimedia messages, (MMS), can contain text and pictures, recorded voice, audio or video files,
picture slideshows, contact namecards (vCard), or calendar events (vCalendar).
See your service plan for applicable charges for messaging.

Send a Message

Quickly compose and sent text messages on your phone.
1. Press
and tap
2. Tap
Compose to create a message:
Tap Enter recipient and enter a Contact name, a mobile phone number, or an email
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address using the onscreen keyboard. As you enter letters, possible matches from your
accounts and contacts display on the screen. Touch a match to add it to the message.
Tap Enter message to enter your message.
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Tap to attach an image, picture, video, audio clip, S Memo, Calendar event, location
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info, or contact.
3. Tap
Send to send the message.

New Messages Notification

Depending on your notification settings, the phone will play a ringtone, vibrate, or display the
message briefly in the status bar when you receive a new text or multimedia message. To change
the notification for new text and multimedia messages, see Messaging Settings for details.
A new message icon
new text or multimedia message. The Messaging application icon
new messages.
To open the message, touch and hold the status bar, and then slide the status bar down to open the
Notification panel. Tap the new message to open and read it. For information on reading and
replying to messages, see Managing Message Conversations.

Managing Message Conversations

Text and multimedia messages that are sent to and received from a contact (or a number) are
grouped into conversations or message threads in the All messages screen. Threaded text or
Accounts and Messaging
Apps > Messaging.
also appears in the notifications area of the status bar to notify you of a
also displays the number of
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