M e s s a g e s33Your device supports the sending of text messages beyond the character limit for asingle message. Longer messages will be sent as a series of two or more messages.Your service provider may charge accordingly. Characters that use accents or othermarks, and characters from some language options like Chinese, take up morespace limiting the number of characters that can be sent in a single message.At the top of the display, you can see the message length indicator thattracks the number of characters available. For example, 10/2 means thatyou can still add 10 characters for the text to be sent as two messages.Write and send a message1. Select Menu > Messages > Create message > Text message.2. Enter a message. See "Write text," p. 28. To insert text templates or apicture into the message, see "Templates," p. 34. Each picture messagecomprises several text messages. Sending one picture or multipartmessage may cost more than sending one text message.3. To send the message, select Send > Recently used, To phone number,To many, or To e-mail address. To send a message using a predefinedmessage profile, select Via sending profile. For the message profile, see"Text and SMS e-mail," p. 44. Select or enter a phone number or e-mailaddress, or select a profile.Note: The picture message function can be used only if it is supported byyour network operator or service provider. Only compatible devices thatoffer picture message features can receive and display picture messages.The appearance of a message may vary depending on the receivingdevice.