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Sending and Receiving Text and Picture Mail 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. Before you use your device to send or receive messages, please verify pricing and availability with Sprint, and make sure your phone is turned on, as described in “Turning Your Device’s Phone On and Off” on page 17.
Creating and Sending a Text Message
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.
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.
4.Press Down to jump to the body of the message.
5.Enter your message or select QuickText to insert predefined phrases. To insert emoticons, select
.
6.Select Send.
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