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.

94

Page 96
Image 96
Blackberry SWD-1735726-0622010334-001 manual Message inbox icons, Composing and sending text messages Send a text message