User Guide

82 3A. Sprint Service: The Basics
Using Another Phone to Access Messages
1. Dial your wireless phone number.
2. When your voicemail answers, press *.
3. Enter your passcode.
Text Messaging (SMS) and
Multimedia Messaging (MMS)
With Text Messaging (SMS), you can send and receive
instant text messages between your wireless device
and another messaging-ready phone.
Multimedia messages, or MMS, can contain text and
pictures.
Composing Text Messages
1. On the Start screen, tap to open the Messaging
application.
2. Tap to create a new message.
3. Fill in one or more recipients. You can:
䡲 Enter complete phone numbers or email
messages directly in the
To field. Use a semicolon
to separate recipients.
䡲 Enter the first few letters of a contact name. As
you enter, matching names with mobile phone
numbers from your stored contacts are displayed.
Tap a contact that you want.
䡲 Tap to the right of the recipient field, and then
tap the contact that you want and choose which
phone number to send to.
4. Tap the “type a message” box and then start
composing your message.
5. When done, tap to send the text message.
Tip: When you call voicemail from another phone, you first
hear the header information (date, time, and sender
information) for the message. To skip directly to the
message, press 4 during the header.
To erase a voicemail message, press 7 after listening to it.
Note: See your service plan for applicable charges for 
Text Messaging and Multimedia Messaging.
Note: Text messages have a 160-character limit. A counter
appears below your text message to tell you how many
characters you’ve entered.