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The apps Mes saging
Messaging
Get to gri ps with me ssaging on your Galaxy
Texting friends
and family
Texting is one of the most
popular uses of any phone
and your Galaxy has texting
down to a i ne art. It’s
easy to tak e advantage of
its simple and accessible
interface to keep in touch
with all your family and
friends (Fig 1).
Send a text message
Texting is about a lot
more than just creating
and sending messages.
Suppose someone sends
you a website address in a
text message – it becomes
a live link and you can
tap it to go straight to the
site. Alternatively, if someone texts you a phone number then just
tapping it will bring up a menu from wh ich you can call them or
add them to your contacts (Fig 2).
There’s another poten tially useful item on that menu too: copy
message text. Imagine you want to take a bit of an SMS and put it
into an email , or even send text from one SMS to a new recipient –
with this command you can c opy the t ext and then paste it straight
into any other app that su pports text.
SMS messages are ‘threaded’, meaning that you can see a
conv ersational view between you and the person you are chatting
to. You might not always want to keep every message, though, and
if you long-press on any particular message you can delete it. You
T ext people
Send and receiv e t ext messages
Share images
Attach pictures to MMS messages
Dictate messages
Save time and keep your hands free
Stay organised
Manage spam messages
Reply with templates
Send short pre-written messages
Customise alerts
Set your own message notifications
You’ll use it t o …
Fig 2 (above)
Tap on a phone number
inside a text message to either call the
sender or add them as a contact
Fig 1 (right) Messaging provides you with
threaded conversations so that you don’t
have t o keep digging through old t exts
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