Verizon GH68-36971A Text and Multimedia Messaging, Creating and Sending Messages, New message

Text and Multimedia Messaging

Your phone can send and receive text and multimedia messages.

Creating and Sending Messages

Tip: When using the QWERTY keyboard, you can use the Directional Keys to navigate between message fields.

1.On the QWERTY keyboard, press New message.

– or –

From the Home screen, touch Messaging ➔

New message.

2.Touch Enter recipient and enter a name, phone number

or email address, or touch to add recipients from Contacts. As you enter text, matching contacts

appear. Touch a contact to add it to the list.

3.Touch Enter message, then enter the message. While entering the message, use these options (available options depend on attachments):

•Touch Attach to add media or content to the message (converts the message to MMS).

•Touch Menu for options:

–Insert smiley: Add a text emoticon to the message.

–Add text: Select text from S Memo, Calendar, Contacts or Text templates to add.

–Preview: View the message and attachments before sending.

–Add to Contacts: If the recipients are not saved in Contacts, save the info as a new contact, or update an existing contact.

–Add slide/Remove slide: Add or remove a slide. Slides hold pictures or other media, and adding a slide converts the message to MMS.

–Add subject: Add a subject field (converts the message to MMS.)

–Duration: Set the length of time the media on the slide displays.

–Layout: Choose whether the message text appears above (Text on top) of the attachment(s), or after (Text on bottom).

–Priority level: Set the urgency of the message.

4.Touch Send to send the message.

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