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102 Chapter 7 : Email, text, multimedia, and instant messaging
Multimedia messages consist of text and pictures or videos. You can include
pictures in JPG format and videos that you record on your smartphone.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
• Before you use your smartphone to send or receive multimedia messages,
refer to your service plan for pricing and availability of multimedia
messaging services.
• Make sure that the phone is on and that you’re inside a coverage area
(see Turn wi re less servi ces on).
1 Open Messaging .
2 The first time you open Messaging, tap Done to send a text or
multimedia message. Thereafter, skip to step 3.
3 Tap . The cursor is in the To field. Do one of the following to
address the message:
• Enter a contact’s first or last name or initials, screen name, phone
number, or email address. When you enter a contact name, favorites
appear at the top of the search results (see Create a favorite). Tap the
phone number, IM account name, or email address you want to use
to send the message when it appears.
• 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 (see Edit videos you recorded).
• 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 .
DID YOU KNOW? You can send and receive text messages even while you are
on a phone call. This is easiest when using a hands-free headset or the speaker.
TIP You can also use Just Type to write a text message from Card view or the
Launcher. Start typing a message and scroll down the list of search options. Under
Quick Actions, tap More, and then tap New Message. The Messaging application
opens at a new message, with the text you entered in the body of the message.