User's Manual

28 Chapter 7 : Email, text, multimedia, and instant messaging
• Tap to open your full contact list. Tap the contact you want or
enter a name or address to narrow the list.
• Enter a phone number for a recipient who is not a contact.
• Do you need to enter a short code that contains letters—for
example, to text a vote to a TV poll or to make a donation to a
charity? Use the keyboard to enter it; just press the letter keys and
tap the code that appears under Short Code. This is not the same
as dialing a number that is expressed as letters—for example,
(555) 256 TALK. To dial a number like this, you must use the
onscreen dial pad and tap the numbers that correspond to the
letters T,A,L,K— which would be 8255.
4 (Optional) Tap the To field and repeat step 3 to enter additional
recipients.
5 To attach a picture in JPG format to a multimedia message, do one
of the following:
• Before entering the message text: Tap . Tap the album
containing the picture you want and tap the picture, or tap New
Photo and take a picture. Tap Attach Photo.
• After entering the message text: Open the application menu and
tap Add File. Follow the instructions given above.
6 To attach a video you recorded to a multimedia message, do one of
the following:
• Before entering the message text: Tap , and tap . Tap the
album containing the video and tap the video, or tap New Video.
If you tap New Video, tap to start recording, tap to stop,
and then tap the new video’s date. If a video is above the
maximum size allowed for sending by multimedia message you
can trim the video to an appropriate size.
• After entering the message text: Open the application menu, tap
Attach File, and tap . Tap the album containing the video and
tap the video, or tap New Video. Follow the instructions given
above.
7 Enter the message text and tap .
Receive and view text and multimedia messages
You can view pictures, videos, and animated GIFs, and listen to music
files included in a multimedia message. You can save pictures in JPG
format to your smartphone for viewing in the Photos application.
Animated GIF files appear as JPG files in the Messaging app.
1 Open Messaging .
2 Tap a conversation to view messages.
3 To view an attached file in a multimedia message: Tap a music,
video, or vCard file name.
4 Attached pictures are displayed within the message. To view an
attached picture: Tap the picture and tap View. Tap Copy To Photos
to save an attached JPG picture.
5 (Optional) Do any of the following from the body of the message:
• To call a number: Tap the number, and tap .
• To add a number to Contacts: Tap and hold the number, and tap
Add to Contacts. Tap Save As New to create a new contact, or tap
Add To Existing to add this number to an existing contact.
• To send an email: Tap the email address.
• To go to a web address: Tap it.
Messaging: Instant messaging
Set up an instant messaging (IM) account
Your smartphone supports instant messaging through popular online IM
services, such as Google Talk and AIM. If you already have an IM
account, you can sign in through the Messaging app or through the
Accounts app.