What is SMS?
SMS stands for Short Message Service and is commonly know as text messaging.It's great for sending quick little messages to your friends phones and normally cheaper than a mobile phone call.
So, next time you're running late you can just key in "On my way!" SMSing.
On nearly all mobile phones, SMS allows you to send short written messages of up to 160 characters or about 25 words.
Over one billion text messages are sent each month. Some of the more modern phones allow simple pictures to be sent within a text message.
Typing them in
In older phones you write the letters by pressing the key repeatedly. So, if you press 2 once, it writes an 'A', if you press it twice a 'B' and three times a 'C'.Nowadays many phones have dictionaries inside (predictive text) them and can guess the word you want to write even when you just press the key once. It's great because it saves a lot of time and effort!
Text Message Alerts
Alert services give information such as updates on the latest news headlines, sport scores and share prices. So they could be a newsflash or a football goal alert!Other alerts might be your daily horoscope and information services covering everything from music news to the latest stock market quotes.
How to get started
- Select Menu on your Phone
- Select Messages
- Select Write Messages
- Write Message (some phones have predictive text which means you only have to press each key once and the phone will determine what word you are spelling- this can be turned on or off by pressing the # key. Spaces are made with the [0] key and symbols like .,;’# are made with the [1] key)
- Once you have finished select options
- Select send
- Enter a phone number or select search
- Choose a person you wish to send a message to and press ok
- Select OK to send your text
- Congratulations you have sent a text message
