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Managing Messages
Messages
SMS is a convenient means of communication. You can
send a text message to other people via this service.
You can use the Messages menu in your phone to send
an SMS message to other mobile phones or any other
equipment that can receive SMS. To access the SMS
function select Menu > Messages.
Text Input Mode
When you enter text, the input mode is displayed at the
top left of the screen. Press and release the * key to view
the different text input modes, that is conventional (Abc/
ABC/abc) and numeric (123). Press and hold the * key to
enable the T9 mode.
In conventional mode, you can enter a letter by repeatedly
pressing a key until the letter you want appears. Numeric
mode is used to input numbers.
In T9 mode, when you press a key, the alphabets or letters
are displayed. Scroll to the alphabet or letter and press the
menu key to select.
1. To switch between upper case (ABC), lower
case (abc) or sentence case (Abc), use key *.
When the sentence case is used, the letter which
comes immediately after the characters full stop
(.), exclamation mark (!) and question mark (?)
automatically becomes capital.
2. To enter a character, press the numeric key repeatedly
until the desired character appears on the screen.
3. When editing text, to insert a space between
characters or words, press 0.
4. To erase a character select Delete.
5. Press 0 to insert a full stop(.).
To insert special characters, press # to display the special
characters. Press the navigation keys to scroll through
the special characters. Select the character to appear in
the text.
Press and hold * to display the text input in different
languages. Press the menu key to select the language.
Select Done to change the text input language.
Managing SMS Messages
SMS Settings
To view or dene settings for your SMS messages select
Menu > Messages > SMS > Settings:
Settings Function
Service Center The message centre number, provided
by your service provider, via which
your messages are sent. The phone
automatically picks up this number if
it is already congured in the SIM card
Expiry period Select the period for which your
messages will be stored in the
message centre.
Delivery
reports
Select On to get a conrmation report
whether message has been delivered
or not.
Save Sent Select On to save the sent messages.
Storage Type Select SIM or Phone as the storage
location of messages.
Broadcast Select On to receive broadcast
messages sent by the service
provider.