Nokia 6610i - Text messages (SMS)

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t messages

(SMS)

Using SMS (Short Message Ser

vi

ce), your

phone can send and

receive multi-part

messages, which consist of several or

dinar

y te

xt me

ss

age

s (

n

etw

o

rk se

rvice)

.

Sendi

n

g multip

art messages may aff

ect in

voicing. Consult your service p

rovider

for mor

e details.

You can also send and receive t

ext

messages that contain pictures.

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Your d

ev

ic

e supports

the se

nding of

text

messa

ges

beyond the normal

160-charac

te

r limit.

If

your mess

age

excee

ds 160 characters,

it

w

ill be

sent as

a series

of tw

o

or more me

ssages.

The

number o

f avail

a

ble

characters

/

t

h

e

curre

nt

part number of a mult

i-part message are

shown

o

n

the top right of

th

e dis

p

lay,

for example 120/

2.

Note

that

us

ing s

p

ecial

(Unicode)

charac

te

rs

su

ch

a

s

ë,

â

, á

, ì

t

a

ke

u

p

m

o

re

s

p

a

ce

.

Note

: Picture mess

age

func

ti

on c

a

n be us

ed only

if

it is s

u

ppo

rt

ed by your netw

ork

operator

or s

ervic

e provide

r. Only d

evic

es

tha

t

offer picture message features ca

n

re

ce

iv

e and di

splay pict

ure

messages

.

Writin

g a

n

d

sen

din

g m

essag

es

1.

Pre

ss

Me

n

u

, and select

Messages

,

Te

xt messages

and

Cr

eate message

.

Tip:

To st

art writing messag

es

qu

ic

kly, press

in standby

mode.

2.Key in a message. See

W

rit

in

g

t

ex

t

on page

38

. To ins

ert te

xt

templates or a picture

into the message, see

Templates

on page

55

. Each

picture message is made up of several

text messages.

Th

erefore, sending one

picture message may cost more th

an sending one text message.

3.

To send the message, press

Opti

ons

and select

Send

.

4.

Enter the recipient’s phone n

u

mber or search for the p

h

one number i

n

Contacts

.

Pre

ss

OK

to send the message.

Option

s fo

r sen

din

g

a message

After you have written

a message, press

Opt

ions

and select

Sendi

n

g options

.

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To send a message t

o

se

veral r

ecipients, sel

ect

Send to

many

. W

h

en y

o

u

have

sent th

e message to everyone y

o

u want to send it to, press

Done

.

To send a message u

sing a

di

stribution list, select

Send to

list

.

To create a distribution list, see

D

is

tr

ib

u

ti

on

li

st

s

o

n

page

53

.

To

sen

d

a message using

a message p

rofile,

select

Sending profile

a

n

d t

h

en

the

desired messag

e prof

ile.

To def

ine a message profi

le, see

Me

ss

age

se

tti

n

g

s

on page

63

.

Writin

g a

n

d

sen

din

g e-

mail

Before you c

a

n send an e-ma

il via SMS, you need to save the

settings for sending

e-mail, see

Me

ss

age

settings

on page

63

. To check e-mail service availability and

to subsc

ribe to the service, c

o

ntac

t your

network operator

or service pr

ovi

d

er. To

save an e-mail address i

n

Contacts

, see

Saving multiple number

s and text items

per

name

on

pa

g

e

71

.

1.

Pre

ss

Me

n

u

, and select

Messages

,

Te

xt messages

and

Cr

eate SMS

e-mail

.

2.

Key in the r

ecipient

’s e-mail address

or search for i

t

in

Contacts

and pr

ess

OK

.

3.

If you wish, you can key i

n

a subject for the e-mail and press

OK

.

4.

Key in the e-mail message. See

Writing text

on page

38

. The total number of

characters that you can key

in

is sh

ow

n on the top r

ight

o

f the display. Th

e e-

mail address

and subject are incl

u

d

ed

in the total number of

character

s.

See also

Inserting a text t

emplate int

o

a

message

o

r

in

to an e-mail

on page

55

.

Pictures cannot be inserted.

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5.

To send the e-mail,

press

Opt

ions

and

select

Send e-mail

. If you have not saved

the settings f

o

r sending e-mails, the ph

one asks for the

n

u

mber of the e-mail

se

rver

.

Pre

ss

OK

to send the e-mail.

Read

ing

an

d replyin

g

to

an

SMS

messa

g

e o

r a

n

e-

mail

When you have r

ecei

ved a message or an e-mail, the indicat

or

and the

number o

f new messages followed by

messages received

are

shown.

The blinking

in

d

icates t

h

at

the message

memor

y is full. Before

you can receive

new messages, delete some of

your old messages in the

Inbox

folder.

The text messages function

uses shared memory, see

Shar

ed Memory

on page

11

.

1.

Pre

ss

Sh

o

w

to vi

ew the new message, or pr

ess

Exit

t

o

v

ie

w

it

la

te

r.

Reading th

e message

later:

Pre

ss

Me

n

u

, and select

Messages

,

Te

xt messages

and

Inbox

.

2.

If more th

an one message h

a

s been received, select th

e one that you want to

read. An unread messag

e is indic

ated by

in f

ront of it.

3.

While readi

n

g

or viewing the message, press

Options

.

You can select an

op

ti

on

, for

example, to

delete, fo

rward or

edit the message

as a text message or

an e-mail, r

ena

me the message you are r

ead

ing or to

move it to anot

her folder.

Sel

ect

Copy t

o

calendar

to co

py text at

t

h

e begi

n

n

ing of

th

e message to your

phone’s cal

endar

as a reminder note for the curr

ent day.

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Sel

ect

Message details

t

o

view, if

available, th

e sender’s name and phone

number, the message c

entre used, an

d the date and time of

receipt.

Sel

ect

Use det

a

il

to extract numbers, e-mail

a

ddresses and websi

te addr

esses

from the cur

rent message.

When reading a pict

u

re

message, select

Save picture

t

o

save th

e picture i

n

t

h

e

Te

mplates

folder

.

4.

Sel

ect

Reply

to repl

y to a messag

e. Select

O

riginal text

to include

th

e original

message in

the

reply, or select a

standar

d

answer to

be

in

cluded

in

the reply, or

se

lect

Empt

y screen

.

When replying to an e-

mail, co

n

firm or

edit the e-mail address an

d

subject

first. Then write your reply message.

5.

Pre

ss

Opti

ons

, s

elec

t

Send

, and press

OK

to send the message t

o

t

h

e displ

ayed

number.

Inb

o

x

a

n

d sen

t items

fold

ers

The phone

saves incoming text

messages in the

Inbox

fol

d

er an

d

sent messages in

the

Sent items

folder of the

Te

xt messages

submenu.

Te

xt

m

es

sa

g

es

t

h

a

t y

o

u

w

is

h

t

o

send later can be saved in the

Archive

,

My f

olders

or

Te

mplates

folder.

Distribution

li

sts

If you need to send messages frequent

ly

to a fixed group o

f recipi

ents, you can

def

ine a distribution list for that purp

ose.

You can save these d

istribution lists in

the phone’s memory. Note th

at the phone

se

nds the

mes

sa

g

e se

para

tely to e

a

ch

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reci

pient on the li

st. Ther

ef

ore, sending a message us

ing a d

istribution list may

cost more than to send a message t

o

on

e recipient.

Make sure that the contacts you want to

add

to

the distri

b

ut

io

n

l

ists, ar

e saved in

the phone’s internal

contact memory.

Pre

ss

Men

u

, and select

Messages

,

Te

xt messages

and

Distri

bu

tio

n

lists

. The

na

mes

of the

available distribution list

s are shown.

If you have not saved any

l

ists, press

Add

to create one.

K

ey in

th

e name fo

r the

list and press

OK

. Pres

s

Opt

ions

, an

d

select

View list

. P

res

s

Add

and select a contact fr

om th

e

phone’s contact memory. To add

more c

o

n

tac

ts to the created l

ist, press

Op

tions

, s

ele

ct

A

dd contact

and

se

lect a

ne

w conta

ct.

Oth

erwise, scroll to a

list, press

Opt

ions

an

d you can select

View list

to view the contacts on the selected

list. Press

Opt

ions

an

d you

can also delete or view details of

a

selected contact or add a new cont

act.

A

dd list

to create a distribution list.

Rename list

to change the name of the

sel

ected li

st.

Clear list

to delete all names and phon

e numbers f

rom the selected list

.

Delete list

to delete the select

ed distribution list.

If the message cannot

b

e sent to certai

n recipients on the di

stribution list,

se

lect

Undel

iv

ered

. Pr

ess

Option

s

and select

Resend to

list

to resend th

e message to the recipients on the

Undelivered

list.

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View list

to view the list of the r

ecipient

s to whom the latest message

sending fail

ed.

Delete list

to delete the

Undelivered

list.

View message

to view the failed message.

Templates

Your phone i

n

cludes text temp

lates,

indi

cated by

, and pict

u

re

temp

lates,

indicated by

.

To access the te

mplat

e list

, press

Menu

, and select

Messages

,

Te

xt messages

and

Te

mplates

.

In

serting

a t

ext t

em

p

lat

e

int

o a m

essage or

int

o an

e-mail

W

hen you are writing or replying to

a message o

r an e-mail, press

Opt

ions

.

Sel

ect

Use templ

at

e

and select th

e templ

ate that you want to insert.

In

serting

a pi

cture i

n

to

a

text

message

W

hen you are writing or replying to a message, press

Opti

ons

. Select

Insert

picture

and select a pi

cture to view it. P

ress

Inser

t

to insert the pict

u

re

into

your message. The

indicat

or

in th

e header

of the message i

n

d

icates th

at a

picture has been attached. The number of

ch

aracters that you can ent

er in a

message, depends on the size of the picture.

To view the text an

d

th

e picture togeth

er before sending

the me

ss

age,

pre

ss

Option

s

and select

Pr

eview

.

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Arch

ive folder an

d

My

fo

lders

To organ

ise your

messages, you

can move some of them to the

Ar

chive

folder, or

add new f

older

s for your messages.

While reading a message, press

Opt

ions

. Select

Mo

ve

, scroll to the folder that you

want to move the message to and press

Select

.

To add or

delete a

folder,

press

Menu

, and

se

le

ct

Messages

,

Te

xt messages

and

My

folders

.

To add a folder,

press

Op

tions

and select

A

dd folder

.

To delete a folder, scroll to the f

older that you wan

t

to delet

e,

press

Op

tions

and select

D

elet

e f

older

.

M

u

lt

imedi

a

messag

es

Note

: On

ly devices that offer

compatible

mu

ltimedia me

ssage or e-mail

features

can

receive and dis

p

lay mult

imedia

mes

sages.

A multimedia message can co

n

tain text

, so

u

n

d and a picture. The phone su

pp

orts

multimedi

a messages th

at are up to 45

kB in size.

If

t

h

e maximum size is

exceeded, the phone may not be able to

re

cei

ve the message. Depending on the

network, you may

receiv

e a text message th

a

t

include

s a

n

Inte

rnet a

ddres

s w

h

ere

you can view the multimedia message.

If the message c

o

ntains a pi

ct

ure, the ph

one scales it down t

o

fit the display ar

ea.

The default

s

etti

ng of the

multimedi

a

message service is generally

on.

The appe

arance

of a

multimed

ia me

ssage may v

a

ry

d

epending

on the

recei

ving device.