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Picture Messages
This menu allows you to use the Multimedia Message Service
(MMS) to create a Picture messages.
Picture Messaging is a messaging service that provides delivery
of personal picture messages from phone to phone or from
phone to email. The Picture messaging icon (
) displays in
the icon area when you have received a new text message.
In addition to the familiar text content available via traditional text
messages, picture messages can contain images, graphics,
voice, and audio clips.
A Picture Messaging message is a multimedia presentation
contained in a single file. It is not a text file with attachments.
This type of message must first be retrieved from T-Mobile’s
before it can be viewed. The
displays in your Message
inbox list to indicate any unretrieved picture messages. The
Message icon (
) displays once you have successfully
retrieved and opened a new picture message.
Using the Picture Messaging feature, your phone can receive and
send messages that contain multimedia files, such as photos,
sounds and images that you downloaded from the Internet and
voice notes you recorded. This function is available only if it is
supported by your service provider. Only phones that offer picture
messaging features can receive and display picture messages.
Creating and Sending a Picture Message
1. From Home screen, press Menu (LSK) ➔ Messaging ➔
Create message.
2. Highlight the To field and enter a phone number.
– or –
3. Highlight the To field and press Add ( ) to add a
recipient and choose from one of the following:
• Recent recipients: allows you to select from recipients of your
previous messages.
• Contacts: allows you to enter the phone number you want from
Contacts.
• Groups: allows you to select a group.
– or –
Press the Options soft key and select one of the following:
• Add recipients: allows you to add Recent recipients, Contacts, or a
Group.
• View recipients: allows you to view and add a recipient from the
Recipient list.
• Exit composer: exits the composer and displays the Create new
screen.
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