Palm PDA CentroTM Smart Device manual Creating and sending a text message

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Creating and sending a text message

Each text message can have up to

160 characters. Messages with more than

160 characters are automatically split into several messages. (If you send a text message to an email address, the email address is deducted from the 160-character count.)

DID YOU KNOW? You can page someone to call you by sending them a blank text message.

1Press Applications and select Messaging .

2Select New.

3Select the To field to address the message:

•Press Center . If the recipient’s name appears in the list of recent addresses, select it from the list.

•If the recipient is in your Contacts list, enter the first initial and last name (no spaces), and then select the recipient’s phone number or email address, depending on where you want to send the message.

•If the recipient’s name isn’t in the list of recent addresses or your Contacts list, enter the phone number or email address.

TIP If you see numbers when you expect to see letters (or the other way around), you need to turn Option Lock on by pressing Option twice or turn it off by pressing Option once.

TIP Do you need to enter a short code that contains letters? Use the keyboard to enter it; just press the letter keys. For example, if the code is “win01,” press W to enter w, I to enter i, and so on. No need to figure out the numbers that correspond to the letters

NOTE Sending text messages to land-line phones may not be supported.

4Enter your message or select QuickText to insert predefined phrases. To insert emoticons, select .

TIP To add a new QuickText phrase, select

Edit QuickText from the list.

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