M e s s a g e sCopyright © 2005 Nokia. All rights reserved. 136. MessagesThe message services can only beused if they are supported by yournetwork or your service provider.Note: When sendingmessages, your phone maydisplay the words Messagesent. This is an indicationthat the message has beensent by your device to themessage centre numberprogrammed into yourdevice. This is not anindication that the messagehas been received at theintended destination. Formore details aboutmessaging services, checkwith your service provider.Important: Exercise cautionwhen opening messages.Messages may containmalicious software orotherwise be harmful toyour device or PC.Note: Only devices thathave compatible featurescan receive and displaymessages. The appearanceof a message may varydepending on the receivingdevice.■ Text messages (SMS)Using the short message service(SMS) you can send and receivemultipart messages made of severalordinary text messages (networkservice) that can contain pictures.Before you can send any text,picture, or e-mail message, you mustsave your message center number.See ”Message settings” p. 25.To check SMS e-mail serviceavailability and to subscribe to theservice, contact your serviceprovider.Your device supports the sending oftext messages beyond the characterlimit for a single message. Longermessages will be sent as a series oftwo or more messages. Your serviceprovider may charge accordingly.Characters that use accents or othermarks, and characters from somelanguage options like Chinese, takeup more space limiting the numberof characters that can be sent in asingle message.