19■ Text messagesUse the short message service (SMS) to send and receive multipart messages made of severalordinary text messages (network service) that can contain pictures.Before you can send any text, picture, or e-mail message, you must save your messagecenter number. See "Message settings," p. 28.To check SMS e-mail service availability and to subscribe to the service, contact yourservice provider.Your device supports the sending of text messages beyond the character limit for a singlemessage. Longer messages will be sent as a series of two or more messages. Your service providermay charge accordingly. Characters that use accents or other marks, and characters from somelanguage options like Chinese, take up more space, limiting the number of characters that canbe sent in a single message.Write and send a message1. Select Menu > Messaging > Create message > Text message.2. Enter a message. See "Write text," p. 17. At the top of the display, the message lengthindicator tracks the number of available characters. For example, 10/2 means that you canstill add 10 characters for the text to be sent as two messages. To insert text templatesor a picture into the message, see "Templates," p. 20. Each picture message comprisesseveral text messages. Sending one picture or multipart message may cost more thansending one text message.3. To send the message, select Send > Recently used, To phone number, To many, or To e-mailaddress. To send a message using a predefined message profile, select Via sending profile.For the message profile, see "Text and SMS e-mail," p. 28. Select or enter a phone numberor e-mail address, or select a profile.Read and reply to a messageis displayed when you received an SMS message or an SMS e-mail. The blinkingindicates that the message memory is full. Before you can receive new messages,delete some of your old messages in the Inbox folder.1. To view a new message, select Show. To view it later, select Exit.To read the message later, select Menu > Messaging > Inbox. If more than one messageis received, select the message that you want to read. indicates an unread message.2. While reading a message, select Options and delete or forward the message; edit themessage as a text message or an SMS e-mail; rename the message you are reading ormove it to another folder; or view or extract message details. You can also copy textfrom the beginning of the message to your phone calendar as a reminder note. To savethe picture in the Templates folder when reading a picture message, select Save picture.