User’s Manual 4-12
Applications & Widgets
Exchanging messages
You can send text (SMS) message to a mobile phone.
Send a text message
1. On the Messaging screen, click New Message.
2. Enter a mobile phone number in the To field.
As you enter the phone number, the matching contacts will appear. You
can click a suggested recipient or continue entering the phone number.
You can also enter the name of a contact with a mobile number.
3. Click the composition text box to start entering your message.
4. Click Send.
The message window opens with your message after your name.
Responses appear in the window. As you view and send additional
messages, a message thread is created.
Respond to messages you receive
If you’re working in a message window, messages that you receive are
displayed in it. Otherwise, you will receive a new message notification and
a new message icon will appear in the Status bar. When you click the new
message notification, the Message window will open, where you can reply
to the message.
Messaging options
Click and hold a message to open a menu with number of options for
working with the message and its sender’s information.
Messaging Settings
You can change a number of Messaging settings.
To change Messaging settings, press the Menu key ( ) in the Messaging
window and then select Settings.
Storage settings
■ Delete old messages
Check to delete older messages in a thread when the Text message
limit is reached. Uncheck to keep all messages.
■ Text message limit
Click to set the number of messages to save per thread of text
messages. When the limit is reached, older messages are deleted if
Delete old messages is checked.
Text message (SMS) settings
■ Delivery reports
Check to receive delivery reports for the messages you send.