Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions One Touch 531 - Manual (Page 21)

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M
essages
Preparing the phone to
send SMS messages
Before sending your first SMS, the net-
work SMS centre number (obtainable
from your service provider) has to be
stored:
The SMS centre number may already be
available in your SIM card and may then be
automatically displayed.
If you want to choose a Sending profile for
your message:
Entering text
Some features and functions (storing
names in memory or sending SMS text
messages, Office tools, Connectivity, Inter-
net, Settings,...) require you to know how
to enter and edit text in the display.
In the display this is indicated by
in
lower case mode and by in upper
case mode. Text and alphabet characters
can then be entered or edited directly
from the keypad.
There are two methods to type text char-
acters and numbers. The Multitap or Mul-
tipress key method and the quicker
intuitive method, called T9 text input.
It is the default method to enter text.
Press
to swap between the T9 and the
Multitap methods. When on T9 mode,
is displayed on the upper part of the dis-
play to show T9 is the current mode.
is
displayed on the lower part of the screen
to indicate the Multitap text method can
be reached by pressing
. When on Mul-
titap mode, is displayed on the upper
part of the display to show Multitap is the
current mode. is displayed on the lower
part of the screen to indicate the T9 meth-
od can be reached by pressing
.
The Multitap/Multipress method
A brief press on a key displays the
first character associated with the
key and shows the other available
characters at the top of the display.
Here is the list of the available char-
acters (the available characters list
is language dependent):
Press . Select Messages.
Select Settings
.
Select Sending profiles .
Type the message center
number or select a template
(if several available) then
enter the requested informa-
tion (operator dependent).
Select Save
to validate.
You may not be allowed to change your sending pro-
file (format and validity period). Please contact your
service provider for further details.
Press . Select Messages.
Select Settings
.
Select Sending profiles
and choose the profile you
want to use (if already stored)
or choose one of the empty
profiles ([...]) .
Fill in the following fields:
Fields Description Default
Name To type the profile
name.
Profile1
Mes-
sage
centre
To type the centre
number.
Defined
by oper-
ator
Format
To set the message
format: text, voice,
fax or paging.
Text
Validity
period
Time the message
remains at the
message centre until
delivered.
Maxi-
mum
Select Save to validate.
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Key Character
Lower case Upper
case
1 . , - ' @ : ?
a b c 2 A B C 2
d e f 3 D E F 3
g h i 4 G H I 4