Samsung SGH-A687LBAATT Messaging, Types of Messages, Creating and Sending Messages, Voicemail

Section 11: Messaging

This section describes how to send or receive different types of messages. It also includes the features and functionality associated with messaging.

Types of Messages

Your phone provides the following message types:

•Text Messages

•Multimedia (Picture and Video) Messages

•IM Messages

•Mobile Email

•Voicemail

The Short Message Service (SMS) lets you send and receive text messages to and from other mobile phones or email addresses. To use this feature, you may need to subscribe to your service provider’s message service.

The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) lets you send and receive multimedia messages (such as picture messages and video messages) to and from other mobile phones or email addresses. To use this feature, you may need to subscribe to your service provider’s multimedia message service.

Important!: When creating a message, adding an image, a sound file, or a video clip to a text message changes the message from a text message to a multimedia message.

Messaging icons display at the top of the screen and indicate when messages are received as well as their type. For more information, refer to “Icons” on page 13.

Creating and Sending Messages

1.From the Idle screen, press Menu ➔ Messaging ➔ Text ➔ Compose New Message.

Tip: In Idle mode, you can access your messages by pressing up on the Navigation key.

2.Enter a phone number or email address in the Recipients field.

– or –

Press Add from the Recipients field and select one of the

following:

•Contacts: to select a recipient from your Contacts list (valid entries must have a wireless phone number or email address).

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