Blackberry 9350 Message inbox icons, Composing and sending text messages Send a text message

User Guide Messages

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.

Message inbox icons

These icons indicate the type or status of each message in your inbox.

Depending on your BlackBerry smartphone model and wireless service provider, some of these icons might not appear.

Unread message	New BBM item
	To clear this indicator, open each chat that has this
	indicator.
Read message	BBM chat is open
Draft message	New BBM Groups item
Filed message	New RSS item
Message with an attachment	Message is being sent
Message is high priority	Message has not been sent
Text message with an attachment	Message has been sent
Text message	Message has been delivered
Message has been read

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 key on the keyboard.

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