Before you say it, I did search!!

I found so many questions and different answers with different dates that I still don't know what the answer is.

I just got my first Blackberry.

How do I send a text message? I don't care if it is SMS or MMS. I just want to be able to send a text.

Thanks for any help.

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Ok well from one noob to another go to messages click the scroll wheel and hit compose mms .... That's how it is on the 7100i

You can't do it on a 7520

Okay. I have a 7520. Thank you Murpheous. That is what I needed to know. It can't be done.

That sucks. Now that i have a full keyboard I can't send text messages.

Weeeeelll if they have an email address like , you can. But just to a phone number, ain't happening. and yes, it does suck.

you can also send messages to
With teleflip you dont need to know what network the user is on.

Okay. I remember seeing those answers. Thank you to all.

But is it possible to receive text? I don't think so from what I've read. I think they have to send it to my email, right?

I cannot seem to setup my BB email.

yes, you can recieve text messages. But, most of the time you can't tell who they are from. Unless they use

also you will not be able to reply to the text message that comes in.

I kinda figured out a way around the text messaging on the 7520. What I did was to create a gmail account that forwards directly to my 7520. All nextel sms users can send to a phone number, or email address. My wife can send to the gmail address from her I830, and I can reply directly back to her using her nextel sms email address (what nextel didn't tell us) the sms address for nextel phones is: (replace 5555551212 with the number you are text messaging) this works great for us.

If anyone else wants to try it out, PIN me and I'll set up a gmail invite for you. Make sure you send me your name and email address to set it up.

John

why do all of that when you can just use your blackberry email address if you are using BIS?

what does MMS stand for?

Can someone tell me how to disable the GPS Tracking Locator on my 7100i?

Multimedia Messaging Service

-MrKyoo

Lots of good ideas. Maybe I should have just gotten the 7100. I like the keyboard though.

If you are still in the 14 day return window, go get an unlocked 8700 or 7290-

Kick in 10 more bucks than your paying for nextel UNL bb, and go get t-mobile UNLIMITED text messaging/ul data and 1000 voice minutes- at edge capable speed.
If TMO coverage suits you-youll be lovin life.
Your milage may vary...

If T-mobile ever covers more of Iowa besides Des Moines, i would ditch 7520 for a 7290 in a minute. Cingular covers alot of Iowa, buts its BB plans is as bad as Nextel. Maybe, I will get a 515 des moines number and let t-mobile roam on cingular all the time where i live in 319

I know somewhere around the forums, a user has made a listing of the sms email addresses for the carriers. You can also (on some sites) go to the website of the carrier and get that address. I remember some but not all the email address.

Verizon:

Sprint: (replace sprintpcs with nextel for nextel users)

T Mobile:

Those are the ones I remember. Hope it helps. I usually program the email address into my address book under the name of the person so I don't have to remember, I just select email the person and that's it. Works well for me, I even get pictures too. Not bad for a BB 7510 from Nextel!

Verizon-- @vtext.com

Cingular-- @mobile.mycingular.com

T-Mobile-- @tmomail.net

Nextel-- @messaging.nextel.com

Sprint-- @messaging.sprintpcs.com (not positive on this one)

ATT-- @mobile.att.net

Alltel-- @message.alltel.com

U.S. Cellular-- @email.uscc.net

Bell Mobility-- @txt.bellmobility.com

Telus-- @msg.telus.com

Rogers-- @pcs.rogers.com

Just wanted to prove I knew where the search button was.

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Lol, glad you know how to use it. Thank you for proving what I said was true!

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Lol, glad you know how to use it. Thank you for proving what I said was true!

If you update your 7520 to OS 4.1, it DOES support MMS messaging.

Not sure if you got your answer already but I'll put in my 2 cents worth. Text messaging for BB's is a little different than from a regular cell phone. Most text messaging done between regular cell phones is called SMS Messaging (or Short Messaging Service).

The Blackberries are PDA's first and foremost so they don't quite act like cell phones even though they have cell phone capability. Blackberries send and receive text messaging via SMS and MMS (or Multimedia Messaging Services).

The main difference between SMS and MMS on a blackberry is that SMS messaging sent to or received from a blackberries is 1 way messaging. What that means is that unless the person sending you the SMS message puts in the message who it's from, you will not be able to know that nor will you be able to reply. The way you can send SMS messages is by a form of email involving the person's 10 digit phone # and usually the carrier address. SMS message sent out by blackberries are done via SMTP (or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). There is a site you can go to to find the SMS addresses for most carriers. It's at notepage.net]SMS Messaging Software from NotePage. You click "Support" and "SMTP" and the list will appear. If you don't know the person's carrier you can look for 3rd party vendors such as teleflip.com]TeleFlip[/url] to use this --> "1235552397@teleflip.com" essentially sending this out as an email and it will send it to the person without you having to know their carrier. Hope that clears some stuff up on SMS.

Now, the only real difference with MMS (or Multimedia Messaging Services) is that MMS is two way text messaging, meaning that you can reply to the person sending you a text message in this fashion. You can also include attachments such as audio/pictures to the messages as well, hence the name "Multimedia". Depending upon your carrier and the data or text plan you are on, text messaging in general could be a simple "pay as you go" service if you don't use text messaging a lot. Or you could be on some form of text plan that allows for so many text messages to be sent/receive without a charge. If you start out as "pay as you go", then for sending/receiving plain MMS text, it could be, say 10 cents a text sent/received. If you include audio/picture attachments with each MMS text sent/received then it could be , say 25 cents a text sent/received. Most people I've worked with are on some "unlimited text plan" to cover for that so that would be something you can look into.

SMS messages sent out are free because they are sent out as email addresses and if you have an unlimited blackberry web/email plan, you are covered for those. It's when you receive SMS messages that you can be charged 10 cents or more depending upon the carrier you have. You can get SMS restriction put in place if, say you get spammed with text and don't want to be charged.

For the 7500 series, I know that the 7520's at first, did not support MMS text until the HHSW 4.1 version came out. If you simply upgrade your HHSW to 4.1 you will now notice an option to "Compose MMS" from your Messages icon. Just go into your Messages icon, click the trackwheel and select "Compose MMS" once you've upgraded your HHSW to 4.1. 7100 series already came with MMS support when they came out.

Hope this was informative and not long winded.

BB Tech Rep

I know that it can be done....if you have the most up to date software....Our shipping and recieving person has it working on her's but she doesnt know what she did differently....I cannot get it on mine though....