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7.3 MMS
Sending multimedia messages (MMS) to your friends and family is fun
and easy. You can include pictures, videos, or audio clips in a multimedia
message.
Notes • Please note that multimedia messaging is a charged service and has to be
provisioned on your mobile account. Please contact your wireless service
provider to have MMS provisioned as part of your calling plan.
• Please make sure the size of MMS messages that you send is within the
limits allowed by your wireless service provider.
Change MMS settings
Check your device to see if it is configured with your wireless service
provider’s MMS settings. If the MMS settings are not yet configured on your
device, you can add the settings while composing an MMS message.
To configure MMS message settings
1. Tap Start > Messaging > SMS \ MMS.
2. Tap Menu > MMS Options. The Settings screen then appears.
3. In the Preferences tab, select or clear the provided check boxes
according to your needs.
4. Tap the Servers tab and
check if your device is
preset with MMS server
settings.
If there are no preset
settings, tap New and
enter the following
information, which you
can get from your other
wireless service provider:
• Gateway. Location of the MMS server, which is usually in the form
of an IP address.
5. A new text message is then created.
To add more recipients,
enter their mobile
phone numbers in the To field, separating
them with a semicolon. You can also
tap To if you want to add mobile phone
numbers from Contacts.
6. Enter your message.
•
To quickly add common messages,
tap Menu > My Text and tap a desired
message.
• To check the spelling, tap Menu >
Spell Check.
7. Tap Send.
Tips • To enter symbols, tap 123 using the onscreen keyboard and then tap
a symbol. For more information about entering text and symbols, see
Chapter 2.
• If you want to know when a text message is received, before sending the
message that you are composing, tap Menu > Message Options then
select the Request message delivery notification check box.
To always receive a delivery notification, tap Menu > Tools > Options in
the text message list, tap SMS \ MMS, then select the Request delivery
notifications check box.
Copy text messages from and to the SIM card
1. Tap Start > Messaging > SMS \ MMS.
2. In the message list, select the text message you want to copy.
3. Do one of the following:
• To copy a text message to the SIM card, tap Menu > Copy to SIM.
• To copy a text message from the SIM card to your device, tap
Menu > Copy to Phone.
Note Text messages stored on your SIM card are automatically displayed in the
Inbox folder. Copying them to your device results in duplicate messages in
the Inbox folder when your SIM card is in use.