Sprint Nextel Telephone - Manual (Page 179)

Section 3A: Sprint Service Features – The Basics 163
Using SMS Text Messaging
With SMS Text Messaging, you can use other people’s phone
numbers to send instant text messages from your phone to
their messaging-ready phones – and they can send messages
to you.
In addition, SMS Text Messaging includes a variety of preset
messages, such as “Can’t talk right now. Send me a message.”
that make composing messages fast and easy. (See page 58
for details.) You can also customize your own preset messages
(up to 50 characters) from your phone.
Composing SMS Text Messages
To compose an SMS Text message:
1. Select > Messaging > Send Message > Text and select
the entry method you prefer:
Ⅲ
Contacts to select a recipient from your internal
Contacts. (Qualifying Contacts entries must contain
a phone number or an email address.)
Ⅲ
Phone# to use the keypad to enter the phone
number of the person to whom you wish to send a
message.
Ⅲ
Email to enter the recipient’s email address.
2. Press to save the recipient. (You may include up to 25
recipients per message.)
3. Select Next (left softkey) when you have finished
selecting and entering recipients.
Tip: You can also select Others (right softkey) to select recipients
from a list.
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