Nokia Lumia 800 User guide

Messaging & mail

Learn how to send and receive messages and mail.

Messages

Learn how to create and send text, multimedia, and audio messages.

About Messaging

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You can send and receive different kinds of messages:

Messages and chats between you and a particular contact are arranged into conversations.

When you want to get in touch with a contact, your phone can help you pick the best method. If the contact is signed in to a chat service, you can send an instant message. Otherwise, a text message can be sent instead.

If you make contact groups containing, for example, family or colleagues, you can send a message to a group.

You can send text messages that are longer than the character limit for a single message. Longer messages are sent as two or more messages. Your service provider may charge accordingly.

Characters with accents, other marks, or some language options, take more space, limiting the number of characters that can be sent in a single message.

Using services or downloading content may cause transfer of large amounts of data, which may result in data traffic costs.

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Send a message

With text and multimedia messages, you can quickly contact your friends and family. In a multimedia message, you can attach your pictures.

Select .

1. Select .

2. Select to add a recipient from your contacts list, or type in the phone number. You can add more than one recipient.

3. Select the message field, then write your message.

4. To add an attachment, select and the file.

5. Select .

Reply to a message

1. Select the conversation containing the message.

2. Select the message field, write your reply, then select .

Forward a message

1. Select the conversation containing the message.

2. Select and hold the message, then select forward.

3. Select to add a recipient from your contacts list, or type in the phone number.

4. Select .

Sending a message with an attachment may be more expensive than sending a normal text message. For more info, contact your service provider.

If the item you insert in a multimedia message is too large for the network, the device may automatically reduce the size.

Only compatible devices can receive and show multimedia messages. Messages may look different in different devices.

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Send a message to a group of people

Would you like to send a message to all your family members? If you have assigned them to a group, you can send a text message or mail to all of them at the same time.

Select People .

Select the group and text or send email, and write and send your message.

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Chat with your friends

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You need a Windows Live account to chat.

Before starting to chat, set up a chat service. Swipe left to online, then follow the instructions shown on the phone.

1. Sign in to a chat service, if not signed in already.

2. In the People hub, select the contact you want to chat with. You can also chat with a group of people.

3. Write your message, then select .

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View a conversation

You can see the messages you have sent to and received from a particular contact in a single conversation thread, and continue the conversation from that thread. The thread can contain text messages, multimedia messages, and instant messages.

On the start screen, select and the conversation.

When you send a new message, it is added to the current conversation. If no conversation exists, a new conversation is started.

When you open a received message from the start screen, the message opens in the conversation.

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