Samsung SGH-T249DABTMB - Manual (Page 52)

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Picture Messages
This menu allows you to use the Multimedia Message Service (MMS).
Picture Messaging is a messaging service that provides delivery of personal picture messages from phone to phone
or from phone to email.
In addition to the familiar text content available via traditional text messages, picture messages can contain images,
graphics, voice, and audio clips. A Picture Messaging message is a multimedia presentation contained in a single
file. It is not a text file with attachments.
This type of message must first be retrieved from T-Mobile’s before it can be viewed. The displays in your
Inbox list to indicate any unretrieved picture messages. The Message icon ( ) displays once you have
successfully retrieved a new picture message.
Using the Picture Messaging feature, your phone can receive and send messages that contain multimedia files,
such as photos, sounds and images that you downloaded from the Internet and voice notes you recorded. This
function is available only if it is supported by your service provider. Only phones that offer picture messaging
features can receive and display picture messages.
Create new
This menu allows you to create a new picture message and then send it to one or more destinations.
Creating and Sending a Picture Message
1. From Idle mode, press Menu ➔ Messaging ➔ Create message.
2. Highlight the To field and enter a phone number, or press to add a recipient from the Recent recipients,
Contacts, or Groups list.
3. Highlight the text field and create a message.
Note: For more information about entering characters, see “Using ABC Mode” on page 34.