Samsung SEGT459LGATMB - Manual (Page 45)

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Text Messages
Short Message Service (SMS) allows you to send and receive short text messages to and from other mobile
phones. In addition, your phone supports the Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS), which enables you to include
simple graphics, melodies, and animated images in your messages. To use this feature, you must subscribe to
T-Mobile's message service.
The Message icon ( ) displays when you receive a new text message. When the memory is full, the message
icon flashes on your phone and you cannot receive any new messages. You must delete a message before you can
receive additional messages.
Create new
In this menu, you can write and send a text message.
Creating a Simple Text Message
1. In Idle mode, press Menu ➔ Messages ➔ Create new ➔ Text message and press the Select soft key or
the key.
2. Create your message.
Note: For further details about entering characters, see “Changing the Text Input Mode” on page 34.
You can enter up to 160 standard Alphabet characters per page in your message. The message can be up to 12 pages long for a
total of 1920 characters.
3. Press the Options soft key when you finish entering your message. The following options are available:
• Insert from: allows you to insert from the Text templates, Phonebook, or Bookmarks. The Text templates allow you to apply
one of the preset message templates to the text. Select one of the 10 items stored in the Text messages Template menu.
Phonebook allows you to add names and phone numbers to your message. Bookmarks allows you to add Internet addresses
to your message.
• Add content: allows you to add a Picture, Animation, or Melody to your message.
• Attach: allows you to attach a Namecard, Schedule, Anniversary item, Miscellaneous item, Task, or Note to your message.
• Save to Drafts: save the message to your Phone.
• Select language: allows you to set the language to English, Français, and Español.
• Text style: allows you to format the style of the text. For the Text size, Large, Medium, and Small sizes are available. Text mode
options are Normal, Underline, and Strikethrough. The options for Bold and Italic are set by using the key to place a
checkmark next to the style attribute. Alignment options are Left, Center, and Right.
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