Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions OT-600 - Manual (Page 19)

You can save your messages that you send often to Drafts or Templates.
An SMS message of more than 160 characters (the number of
characters depends on the languages you writing in) will be
charged as several SMS. An MMS message containing photos
and/or sounds may also be billed as more than one message.
7.1.2 Inbox
All received messages (read and unread) are stored in the same Inbox.
When viewing your messages, you will find the following status icons,
depending on the type of message: unread SMS in phone, unread
SMS in SIM card, read SMS in phone, read SMS in SIM card,
unread MMS in phone, read MMS in phone, message reception in
progress and message sending in progress.
Receiving and reading SMS/MMS
When you receive a new message, the following message is displayed: “X
new message!”, a beep sounds, the
icon shows up, a line with the
number of messages appears on the screen. Select this line and press
to read it directly from the main screen.
Once you have read the message, the following options are given: Reply,
Forward the message to another person, Edit, Delete, Delete all and
extract number or URL (Use number/Use URL).
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You can create, edit and receive SMS and MMS with this mobile phone.
MMS is a message whereby you can send video clips, images, photos,
animations and sounds to other compatible mobiles and e-mail addresses.
The MMS function can only be used if the service is provided by
your operator, and if your contract includes the MMS option and
if all the parameters for MMS have been entered (see page 40).
7.1 Messages: Text/Multimedia message (1)
7.1.1 Create message
From the main menu select "Messages" to create text/multimedia
message.
You can type a message but you can also modify a predefined message in
Templates or customise your message by adding pictures, photos,
sounds, titles, etc (only available while editing a MMS). While writing a
message, select “Options” to access all the messaging options.
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