Section 5: Messaging
This section describes how to send or receive different types of
messages. It also includes the features and functionality
associated with messaging.
Types of Messages
Your phone provides the following message types:
Text Messages
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Multimedia (Picture and Video) Messages
Instant Messaging
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Mobile Email
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Voicemail
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The Short Message Service (SMS) lets you send and receive text
messages to and from other mobile phones or email addresses.
To use this feature, you may need to subscribe to your service
provider's message service.
The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) lets you send and
receive multimedia messages (such as picture messages and
video messages) to and from other mobile phones or email
addresses. To use this feature, you may need to subscribe to
your service provider's multimedia message service.
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Important!: When creating a message, adding an image, a sound file, or a
video clip to a text message changes the message from a text
message to a multimedia message.
Messaging icons display at the top of the screen and indicate
when messages are received as well as their type. For more
information, refer to "Indicator Icons" on page 14.
Creating and Sending Messages
From the Idle screen, press Menu
1.
Message.
Tip: In Idle mode, you can create a new message by pressing up on the
Navigation key.
Use the QWERTY keypad to enter a message. For more
2.
information, refer to "Entering Text" on page 19.
Press Insert to insert one of the following into your
3.
message:
• Picture: inserts a picture from the Pictures folder.
• Video: inserts a video from the Videos folder.
Messaging
Create