Section 6: Messaging; Types Of Messages; Creating And Sending New Text Messages - Samsung SGH A167 User Manual

Section 6: 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
•
• Multimedia (Picture) Messages
IM Messages
•
The Short Message Service (SMS) lets you send and receive text
messages to and from other mobile phones and 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) to and
from other mobile phones and email addresses. To use this
feature, you may need to subscribe to your service provider's
multimedia message service.

Creating and Sending New Text Messages

Tip: From the Idle screen, press the Up Navigation key to access the New
Message screen.
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In Idle mode, press Menu
1.
Message and press the Select soft key or the
Highlight Text Message and press the Select soft key or the
2.
key.
3. Enter text into the message.
For more information on entering text into your new
message, see "Entering Text" on page 24.
When you have finished writing your Text Message, press
4.
the Options soft key. Choose from the following options:
• Insert: allows you to insert a message from the Text Templates, a
Contact List entry, or a URL from your Favorites menu.
• Save to: allows you to save the message to Drafts or My Folder .
• Select Language : allows you to set the language to English,
Français, or Español.
• Input Mode: allows you to change the input mode for your text
message.
• Back: returns to the Messaging menu with the option to save the
message to the Drafts folder.
➔ ➔
Messaging Create New
key.