78 :: MessagingMessagingYou can exchange brief text messages with other mobile phones and with emailaddresses. Before you use your Treo 650 smartphone to send or receive messages,consult your wireless service provider for pricing and availability of text messagingservices.Creating and sending a text messageEach text message can hold up to 160 characters. Messages with more than 160characters are automatically split into several messages. (If you send a text messageto an email address, the email address is deducted from the 160 character count.)1. Make sure your phone is turned on (see “Turning your phone on and off” onpage 14)2. Go to Applications and select Messaging .3. Select New.4. Select the To pick list to address the message:• If the recipient’s name appears in the To pick list, select it from the list.To address a messageto multiple recipients,separate the addresseswith a space or a comma.If you address a singlemessage to three people,you will be billed for threemessages.When addressing amessage, you may need topress Option to enter lettersor numbers. The OptionLock setting defaults to thesetting you used the lasttime you addressed amessage.If you are out of a coveragearea or if your phone is off,outgoing messages go intothe Outbox and are sentautomatically when youreturn to a coverage area.RushUG.book Page 78 Monday, June 13, 2005 1:33 PM
