HTC DROID Incredible - Manual (Page 97)

Messages
About Messages
Messages lets you compose and send text (SMS) and multimedia
messages (MMS) to other mobile phones.
To open your message inbox, press HOME , and then tap
>
Messages.
If the list of messages does not fit on the screen, you can scroll down
to view more messages by swiping your finger on the screen or the
optical joystick.
1

1 Bold text indicates unread messages in the thread.
 Tap to open the message or message thread and
read the text or view the picture message.