Create New Message (Menu 5.1); Messages - Samsung SGH-E720 Manual

Messages

Using the Messages menu, you can use various
message formats.
The following types of message services are
available:
• Short Message Service (SMS): allows you to send
and receive short text messages to and from
other GSM mobile phones. In addition, your
phone supports the Enhanced Messaging Service
(EMS), which enables you to include simple
pictures, melodies, and animated images in your
messages.
• Multimedia Message Service (MMS): provides
delivery of personal multimedia messages from
phone to phone or from phone to e-mail. In
addition to the familiar text content, multimedia
messages can contain images, video clips, audio
clips, and combinations of these things.
• E-mail: allows you to send and receive e-mails
directly from your phone.
• WAP push: allows you to receive messages from
the WAP server.
• Voicemail: gives you the way to access your voice
messages stored on the service provider's
voicemail server.
• Cell broadcast (CB): allows you to receive text
messages on various topics, such as the weather
or traffic.
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Create new message
(Menu 5.1)
Using this menu, you can create and send an SMS
MMS, or e-mail message.
Text message
(Menu 5.1.1)
In this menu, you can write and send SMS
messages.
Creating a simple text message
1. Create your message.
You can create a message using standard
Alphabet characters or special Unicode
characters, depending on the setting in the
Character support menu; see page 111.
Notes:
• For further details about entering characters, see
page 22.
• You can enter up to 918 standard Alphabet
characters in your message. When you enter
text using Unicode characters, the maximum
number of characters in a message is reduced by
approximately half.
2. When you finish entering the message, press
the Options soft key.
3. Select Send and save or Send only and press
the Select soft key.
Send and save first saves a copy of the
message and then sends the message. You can
read it in the Outbox folder.
Messages
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