iBall Slide Octa-A41 User Manual page 39

To open the SMS & MMS Messaging application, on the Home screen, then touch and select the Messaging icon.
About text and multimedia messages
SMS messages are also known as "text" messages and can each be around 160 characters. If you continue to type after the
limit is reached, your message will be delivered as one, but count as more than one message. These are called "concatenated"
messages.
MMS messages are also known as "multimedia" or "picture" messages and can contain text, picture, audio, and video files.
When you compose a message, the phone will automatically convert a text message into a multimedia message as soon as
you add a subject or an attachment, or if you address the message using an email address rather than a phone number.
View the message from the message list
Select a message thread in the list to open it for reading. When open, the individual messages appear stacked on the screen,
much like with instant messaging conversations (or chats).
Note that messages you send are also listed in the Read view.
1. Reading multimedia messages
If you have selected to auto-retrieve your multimedia messages, then both the message header and body will download.
If you are downloading only the headers, then you must first select the Download button to retrieve the message body. If you
are concerned about the size of your data downloads, you can check the message size before you download.
Once the message has downloaded, select "Play" button to view the message.
From a message read view, you can do the following:
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