Text And Multimedia Messaging - Samsung Galaxy S III User Manual

Text and Multimedia Messaging

Your phone can send and receive text and multimedia
messages.
Creating and Sending Messages
1. From the Home screen, touch
2. Touch New message.
3. Touch Enter recipient and enter a name, phone number
or email address, or touch
Groups, Favorites, Contacts or Recent. As you enter
text, matching contacts appear. Touch a contact to add
it to the list.
4. Touch Enter message, and enter the message. While
entering the message, use these options (available
options depend on attachment):
• Touch Attach to add media or content to the message
(converts the message to MMS).
• Touch Menu for options:
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Insert smiley: Add a text emoticon to the message.
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Add text: Select text from S Memo, Calendar, Contacts or Text
templates to add.
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Preview: View the message and attachments before sending.
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Messaging.
to add recipients from
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Add to Contacts: If the recipients are not saved in Contacts,
save the info as a new contact, or update an existing contact.
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Add slide/Remove slide: Add or remove a slide. Slides hold
pictures or other media, and adding a slide converts the
message to MMS.
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Add subject: Add a subject field (converts the message to
MMS.)
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Duration: Set the length of time the media on the slide displays.
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Layout: Choose whether the message text appears above (Text
on top) of the attachment(s), or after (Text on bottom).
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Priority level: Set the urgency of the message.
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Discard: Erase the message without sending it.
5. Touch to send the message.