Writing and sending text messages
Within the
Write message
menu you can write and edit text messages of up to 160 characters. You can
use:
• traditional text input, indicated by
To insert a character, you need to press the key labelled with the required letter as many times as is
necessary.
For more information, see ’Storing names and numbers’ on page 41.
• predictive text input, indicated by
.
When writing complete words, for inserting a character you need to press the key with the
corresponding letter only once.
1. In the standby mode, press
Menu
, press
Select
when
Messages
is displayed.
2. Press
Select
when
Write message
is displayed.
3. Key in a message.
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Tip: When writing a text message, the phone uses the text case, which automatically
writes the first character of a sentence in upper case.
You can also insert templates (see ’Standard answers and templates’ on page 63) and
pictures (see ’Inserting pictures’ on page 63) into your messages.
4. To send the message, press
Options
.
5. Press
Select
when
Send
is highlighted.
The option list includes options for sending, saving and erasing the message you are writing.
Tip: You can also send the message by pressing
after you have written it.
6. Enter the recipient’s phone number, or recall the phone number from phone book by pressing
Search
. Find the desired number and press
OK
.
7. Press
OK
to send the message.