
Preparing the phone to send SMS messages
Before sending your first SMS, the net- work SMS centre number (obtainable from your service provider) has to be stored:
1Press . Select Messages.
2 Select Settings
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3 Select Sending profiles
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4 Type the message center number or select a template (if several available) then enter the requested informa- tion (operator dependent).
5 Select Save to validate.
!You may not be allowed to change your sending pro- file (format and validity period). Please contact your service provider for further details.
The SMS centre number may already be available in your SIM card and may then be automatically displayed.
If you want to choose a Sending profile for your message:
1Press . Select Messages.
2 Select Settings.
3 Select Sending profiles and choose the profile you want to use (if already stored) or choose one of the empty profiles ([...])
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4 Fill in the following fields:
Fields | Description | Default |
Name | To type the profile | Profile1 |
| name. |
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Mes- | To type the centre | Defined |
sage | number. | by oper- |
centre | ator | |
| To set the message |
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Format format: text, voice, | Text | |
| fax or paging. |
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| Time the message |
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Validity remains at the | Maxi- | |
period | message centre until | mum |
| delivered. |
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5Select Save to validate.
Entering text
Some features and functions (storing names in memory or sending SMS text messages, Office tools, Connectivity, Inter- net, Settings,...) require you to know how
to enter and edit text in the display. |
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In the display this is indicated by | in | |
lower case mode and by | in upper |
case mode. Text and alphabet characters can then be entered or edited directly from the keypad.
There are two methods to type text char- acters and numbers. The Multitap or Mul- tipress key method and the quicker intuitive method, called T9 text input.
It is the default method to enter text. Press to swap between the T9 and the Multitap methods. When on T9 mode, is displayed on the upper part of the dis- play to show T9 is the current mode.
is displayed on the lower part of the screen to indicate the Multitap text method can be reached by pressing . When on Mul- titap mode,
is displayed on the upper part of the display to show Multitap is the current mode.
is displayed on the lower part of the screen to indicate the T9 meth- od can be reached by pressing
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The Multitap/Multipress method
A brief press on a key displays the first character associated with the key and shows the other available characters at the top of the display. Here is the list of the available char- acters (the available characters list is language dependent):
Key Character
Lower case Upper
case
1 . , - ' @ : ?
a b c 2 A B C 2 d e f 3 D E F 3 g h i 4 G H I 4
Messages
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