How to send SMS messages step by step guide

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Messaging

This manual should work for various mobile phone brands and models.

Press MENU KEY, and select Messaging. In Messaging, you can create, send, receive, view, edit, and organise text messages, multimedia messages, e-mail messages, and special text messages containing data. You can also receive messages and data through a Bluetooth connection, receive Web service messages, cell broadcast messages, and send service commands.

Note: Only devices that have compatible features can receive and display multimedia messages. The appearance of a message may vary depending on the receiving device. When you open Messaging, you can see the New message function and a list of folders. Here are some of them:

• Inbox—Contains received messages except e-mail and cell broadcast messages. E-mail messages are stored in the Mailbox.
• My folders—For organising your messages into folders.
• Drafts—Stores draft messages that have not been sent.
• Sent—Stores the last 20 messages that have been sent excluding messages sent using a Bluetooth connection.
• Outbox—A temporary storage place for messages waiting to be sent.

Write text

Traditional text input

• Press a number key ( 1 to 9 ) repeatedly until the desired character appears. There are more characters available for a number key than are printed on the key.

• To insert a number, press and hold the number key.

• To switch between letter and number mode, press and hold HASH KEY.

• If the next letter is located on the same key as the present one, wait until the cursor appears (or press RIGHT KEY to end the time-out period), and enter the letter.

• To erase a character, press C. Press and hold to clear more than one character.

• The most common punctuation marks are available under 1. Press 1 repeatedly to reach the desired punctuation mark.

• Press STAR KEY to open a list of special characters. Use DIRECTIONAL to move through the list, and select a character.

• To insert a space, press 0. To move the cursor to the next line, press 0 three times.

• To switch between the different character modes, press HASH KEY.

Write and send text messages

1 - Select New message. A list of message options opens. Text message—to send a text message.

2 - Press SELECT KEY to select recipients or groups from contacts, or enter the recipient’s phone number or e-mail address. Press STAR KEY to add a semicolon (;) that separates the recipients. You can also copy and paste the number or address from the clipboard.

3 - Press DOWN KEY to move to the message field.

4 - Write the message.

5 - To send the message, select Options > Send, or press SEND KEY.

Your device supports the sending of text messages beyond the character limit for a single message. Longer messages are sent as a series of two or more messages. Your service provider may charge accordingly. Characters that use accents or other marks, and characters from some language options like Chinese, take up more space limiting the number of characters that can be sent in a single message. In the navigation bar, you can see the message length indicator counting backwards. For example, 10 (2) means that you can still add 10 characters for the text to be sent as two messages.