AT&T C3B manual Messaging, Receiving a new message, Managing memory

Messaging

In addition to the familiar text content of text messages, multimedia messages can contain images, graphics, and/or sound.

An MMS message is a separate multimedia presentation in a single entry, not an attachment to the text file.

Using the MMS feature, your phone can receive a multimedia message and/or send a picture message, depending on MMS availability from your service provider. Only phones that support the multimedia message feature can receive or display the multimedia messages.

Receiving a new message

When you receive a new message, the popup dialog box displays the number of unread messages and the number of total messages with the New Message icon () in the icon area of the internal and external displays.

You also hear an alert, depending on the message sound setting.

To read the new message(s) immediately, press the [Read] Soft key or the [o] key.

NOTE To clear the new message notification on the display, press the [Cancel] Soft key, the [e] key, or the [c] key.

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Managing memory

The Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Sent, and Templates share a given amount of memory on the phone. In the Inbox, text messages (SMS) can be saved on the phone or the SIM, depending on the Text Message settings.

When Save to in the Text Message settings is set to SIM, received messages are saved in the phone memory if the SIM capacity is full. Also, even if Save to in the Text Message settings is set to Phone, received messages are saved in the SIM if the memory capacity is full.

When using the Inbox, up to 100 received messages can be saved to the phone memory. Up to 30 entries can be saved in the other mailboxes. The Inbox can use the SIM memory. Only the Inbox can use the SIM memory to store text messages (SMS). When you try to save more than 100 messages in the Inbox, a full icon () appears.

When a full icon appears, you cannot receive any new messages. When you open the phone, the notification “Message full Please delete” appears on the display.

You must delete one or more of the old messages in order to make memory available for the new messages. Use the [Delete] option within the each mailbox, or use the [Delete All] option to delete all the messages.

•Write New: Writes a multimedia message (MMS) or a text

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