41Copyright © 2005 Nokia. All rights reserved.6. MessagingYou can read, write, send, and save text, multimedia, email, audio, and flashmessages. All messages are organized into folders.■ Text messages (SMS)With the short message service (SMS) you can send and receive text messages,and receive messages that can contain pictures (network service).Before you can send any text or SMS email message, you must save your messagecenter number. See “Message settings,” p. 61.To check SMS email service availability and to subscribe to the service, contactyour service provider. To save an email address in Contacts, see “Save details,”p. 66.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 serviceprovider may charge accordingly. Characters that use accents or other marks, and charactersfrom some language options like Chinese, take up more space limiting the number ofcharacters that can be sent in a single message.The message length indicator at the top of the display shows the total number ofcharacters left and the number of messages needed for sending. For example, 673/2 means that there are 673 characters left and that the message will be sent as aseries of two messages.
