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Messaging
Short Message Service
Tip: Your service provider 
may send you smart 
messages in the form of 
short messages; these 
messages may include, for 
example, configuration 
settings. For details, contact 
your service provider.
The Short Message Service (SMS) enables you to send and receive short messages 
over the digital wireless network.
Short messages can be sent or received even during voice, data, and fax calls. 
Messages can be read in any mobile phone that has the capability. If the receiving 
phone is switched off at the time of sending, the short message centre continues 
to attempt to send the message until the validity period allowed by the network 
expires.
Note: If you want to send text you have written or edited in another application 
as a short message, all embedded objects or any rich formatting will be 
lost. You cannot send attachments as short messages, either.
To write and send a new short message
Note: You cannot format short messages; that is; you cannot change their font, 
style or format.
1 Press Write short message in the main view of Messaging. The SMS editor 
opens, see figure 73.
Figure 73