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Dialing in for Messages
As gross and pre-iPhonish though it may sound, you can also dial in for your
messages from another phone. (Hey, it could happen.)
To do that, dial your iPhone’s number. Wait for the voicemail system to
answer.
As your own voicemail greeting plays, dial *, your voicemail password, and
then #. You’ll hear the Uptight AT&T Lady announce the first “skipped” message
(actually the first unplayed message), and then she’ll start playing them
for you.
After you hear each message, she’ll offer you the following options (but you
don’t have to wait for her to announce them):
• To delete the message, press 7.
• To save it, press 9.
• To replay it, press 4.
• To hear the date, time, and number the message came from, press 5.
(You don’t hear the lady give you these last two options until you press
“zero for more options”—but they work any time you press them.)
If this whole Visual Voicemail thing freaks you out, you can also dial in for messages
the old-fashioned way, right from the iPhone. Open the Keypad (page 54) and hold
down the 1 key, just as though it’s a speed-dial key on any normal phone.
After a moment, the phone connects to AT&T; you’re asked for your password, and
then the messages begin to play back, just as described above.
SMS Text Messages
“Texting,” as the young whippersnappers call it, was huge in Asia and Europe
before it began catching on in the United States. These days, however, it’s
increasingly popular, especially among teenagers and twentysomethings.
SMS stands for Short Messaging Service. An SMS text message is a very short
note (under 160 characters—a sentence or two) that you shoot from one cellphone
to another. What’s so great about it?
• Like a phone call, it’s immediate. You get the message off your chest right
now.
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