Nokia 6290 - Write and send messages

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Write and send messages

The wireless network may limit the size of MMS messages. If the inserted picture
exceeds this limit, the device may make it smaller so that it can be sent by MMS.

Your device supports the sending of text messages beyond the character limit for
a single message. Longer messages are sent as a series of two or more messages.
Your service provider may charge accordingly. Characters that use accents or

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other marks, and characters from some language options, take up more space,
limiting the number of characters that can be sent in a single message.

Only devices that have compatible features can receive and display multimedia
messages. The appearance of a message may vary depending on the receiving
device.

Before you can send and receive an SMS message, a multimedia
message, or an e-mail, or connect to your remote mailbox, you must
have the correct connection settings in place. See “Messaging settings,”
p. 41.

1. To create a message, select

Menu

>

Messaging

>

New message

and

the message type.

To create an

Audio message

, see “Nokia Xpress audio messaging,”

p. 37.

2. Press the scroll key to select the recipients or groups from

Contacts

or enter the phone number or e-mail address of the recipient in the

To

field. Separate recipients with a semicolon (;).

3. When creating an e-mail or multimedia message, scroll down to the

subject field, and write the message subject.

4. Scroll down to move to the message field.

5. Write the message.

When writing text messages, the message length indicator shows
how many characters you can enter in the message. For example,
10 (2) means that you can still add 10 characters for the text to be
sent as two separate text messages.

To use a template for the text message, select

Options

>

Insert

>

Template

. To create a presentation based on a template to be sent as

a multimedia message, select

Options

>

Create presentation

. To use

a text template for the multimedia message, select

Options

>

Insert

object

>

Template

.

To add a media object to a multimedia message, select

Options

>

Insert object

>

Image

,

Sound clip

, or

Video clip

. To create and add a

new media object, select

Options

>

Insert new

>

Image

,

Sound clip

,

Video clip

or

Slide

. When sound is added,

is shown.

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To add a media object to an e-mail, select

Options

>

Insert

>

Image

,

Sound clip

,

Video clip

,

Note

or

Template

.

6. To send the message, select

Options

>

Send

.