M e s s a g i n g236. MessagingYou can read, write, send, and save text, picture messages, and voice notes.All messages are organized into folders.■ Text messagesWith the short message service (SMS) you can send and receive text messages,and receive messages that can contain pictures (network service dependency).Before you can send any text or SMS e-mail message, you must save yourmessage center number. See “Message settings,” p. 28.To check SMS e-mail service availability and to subscribe to the service,contact your service provider. To save an e-mail address in Phonebook,see “Save details,” p. 30.Your device supports the sending of text messages beyond the character limitfor a single message. Longer messages will be sent as a series of two or moremessages. Your service provider may charge accordingly. Characters that useaccents or other marks, and characters from some language options likeChinese, take up more space limiting the number of characters that canbe sent in a single message.An indicator at the top of the display shows the total number of characters leftand the number of messages needed for sending. For example, 673/2 meansthat there are 673 characters left and that the message will be sent as a seriesof 2 messages.Text entryTo enter text (for example, when writing messages), use traditional or predictivetext input. When you write text, press and hold Options to toggle betweentraditional text input, indicated by , and predictive text input, indicatedby . Not all languages are supported by predictive text input.The character cases are indicated by , , and . To change the charactercase, press #. To change from the letter to number mode, indicated by ,press and hold #, and select Number mode. To change from the number to theletter mode, press and hold #.To set the writing language, select Options > Writing language.
