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Creating and Sending Messages

You can exchange brief text messages with other wireless phones that have text messaging capability. You can also send Sprint Picture Mail messages (including images, videos, voice memos, and text) to other users. Both text messages and Sprint Picture Mail messages can also be sent to email addresses. Before you use your Palm Centro™ smart device to send or receive messages, please verify pricing and availability with Sprint.

Before you use Messaging, make sure your phone is turned on, as described in “Turning Your Device’s Phone On and Off” on page 55.

Creating and Sending a Text Message

You can exchange text messages of up to 160 characters.

Note:

If you send a text message to an email address, the email address is deducted from the 160-character count.

1.Press Messaging .

2.Select New.

3.Select 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.

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