About Text Messages; Composing And Sending Text Messages - Blackberry Bold 9900 Help Manual

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About text messages

To send and receive text messages, your wireless service provider must set up your wireless service plan for text messaging.
Depending on your wireless service provider, this feature might not be supported.
Depending on the typing input language that you use to type your text messages, your messages might display to your
recipients differently than you expect.
Depending on your wireless service provider, you might also be able to send and receive the following media files in text
messages: .jpg, .gif, .wbmp, .midi, .vcf (vCard®), .ics (iCalendar), .avi, .mpg, or .mov.
If you have more than one phone number associated with your BlackBerry® smartphone, your smartphone sends text
messages using the first phone number that appears in the My Number field in the Phone application.

Composing and sending text messages

Send a text message
The number of recipients that you can send a text message to depends on your wireless service provider.
1. On the Home screen, click the Text Messages icon.
2. Press the
key > Compose Text Message.
3. In the To field, do one of the following:
• Type a contact name.
• Press the key > Choose Contact. Click a contact.
• Type a phone number that can receive text messages (including the country code and area code). For languages with
non-Latin characters, press the Alt key to type numbers. Press the
• If your BlackBerry® smartphone is connected to a CDMA network, you can type an email address.
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key on the keyboard.
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