Text Messages; Writing A Message; Saving A Message; Sending A Message - Nokia 5190 Owner's Manual

12. Text messages

The text message network service allows you to exchange
short text messages with other phones that have text
message capability. You can also ask your service provider to
convert the message to other formats such as e-mail and
fax. The messages are first sent to your Message Center,
then delivered to the recipient.
Before you can send and receive text messages, you must
enter certain information into your phone. See 'Message
settings' on page 50.

Writing a message

Press 0HQX 2 1 3 to write a message of
up to 160 characters. The number of
available characters remaining is
shown in the top right corner of the
display. For details on entering letters,
see 'Entering letters and numbers' on page 12.
If at some point you decide to start over, press 2SWLRQV , then
press &OHDU VFUHHQ . You can also press and hold
. All
characters are deleted from the message.

Saving a message

After writing a message, press 2SWLRQV , scroll to 6DYH , then
press 2. . The message is saved in the Outbox.

Sending a message

After writing a message, press 2SWLRQV , scroll to 6HQG , then
press 2. . Enter the recipient's phone number or find it in
the phone book, or enter an e-mail address, then press 2. .
The message is sent using the currently selected message
setting (see 'Message settings' on page 50).
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