Messages

Select ‘Menu>1.Messages’.

This menu allows you to create, send, read and save a message using Short Message Service (SMS: Text message), Enhanced Message Service (EMS: Message including simple image, animation or melody) or Multimedia Message Service (MMS: Message supporting presentation of various media types, such as full colour images and polyphonic ring tones).

Voice mails are also available.

NOTE

These features are available only if your service provider’s network supports it. Contact your service provider for more information.

Text Messages

Press the [ ] key and hold in standby mode or select ‘Menu>1.Messages>1.Text Messages’.

Short message service (SMS) allows you to send and receive a short text message to and from other GSM handsets. Additionally, your handset supports Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS), which allows you to make a short message consisting of a simple picture, melodies, animation and styled text that add new features to simple text messages.

To send a text message by phone, you must obtain the number of the SMS centre from your service provider.

Receiving a new message

When you receive a new message, the New message icon

( ) and a notification showing the number of the message will appear on the display. You will also hear an alert, depending on the message sound setting; for further details, see ‘5.Profiles > 2.Message Alert’

To read the new message(s) immediately, press the [View] Soft key. The list of messages appears.

NOTE

To clear the new message notification on the display, press the [End] key. When you have also a missed call, voice mail, short message, or cell broadcast messages, the left Soft key indication changes to [View]

Managing memory

Inbox and Outbox share a given amount of memory on a SIM card. When the message memory is full, the full message

icon ( ) appears. In this case, you cannot receive any new message. You must delete one or more old messages to free memory for new messages using the [Delete] option within the Inbox or Outbox or the [Delete All] option which deletes the All list.

-Write New: Writes a new SMS or EMS.

-Inbox: Displays the received messages as well as the one saved in the SIM memory. ‘10’ in [10/20] represents the number of unread messages, whereas ‘20’ represents the number of saved messages.

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