78Viewing Newly Received MessagesWhen you receive a message, your phone notifiesyou by displaying within the Notification areaat the top left of your Home screen.To read a message:1. Open the Notification Bar and select themessage. For more information, refer to“Notification Bar” on page 20.– or –From the Home screen, tap then tap thenew message to view. The selected messagedisplays on the screen.2. Tap to play a multimedia message.3. In a single motion, touch and scroll up ordown the page to scroll through the message(if additional pages were added).Message ThreadsSent and received text and picture messages aregrouped into message threads. Threaded messagesallow you to see all the messages exchanged(similar to a chat program) and displays a contact onthe screen.Message threads are listed in the order in whichthey were received, with the latest messagedisplayed at the top.To reply to a text message:1. From theHomescreen,tap .2. While themessageis open,tap theType tocomposefield andthen typeyour replymessage.3. Composeyour reply.Your texts are colored Blue and your caller’sreplies are Yellow.4. Tap Send to review your reply.– or –Press and then tap one of thesemessaging options: View contact, Add subject,Attach, Add text, Insert smiley, or More (Deletemessages, Discard, and Call).Current Recipient My TextReply BubbleText Message Thread
