吉娜·特拉帕尼

我讨厌打电话，但我喜欢我的**。发短信让我与朋友、家人和同事保持联系，而不会像打电话那样效率低下。

短信服务-或短消息服务-结合了电子邮件和电话的最佳方面。文本消息是异步的短通信，您可以在自己的时间内检索和响应，而无需计算机。

发短信似乎不方便，但短信比语音通话有许多优势。人类阅读文本的速度比听语音快25%。短信是可归档、可搜索的，永远不会被错误的接收或切断。当某人不在办公桌上时，发短信可以将信息传到他们手中，而不需要他们停止一切，拿起电话交谈。短信直截了当，省去了浪费时间的闲聊、清嗓子，以及在电话铃响之前重新投入被叫人正在做的事情所需的精力。在聚会或音乐会等嘈杂的场合可以“听到”短信。发短信给各种网络服务可以检索到你在旅途中需要的有用信息，如方向、地址和电话号码。

简而言之，发短信可以帮助你完成事情。对于那些拥有短信息功能的**的人，这里有一些关于发短信的提示。

你可以用短信做什么

• Send reminders Text your hubby "pick up milk at the store." Remind your teenager to "call when you get there." Schedule messages to arrive on your phone at just the right time to remind yourself of time-dependent to-do's and events.
• Find a friend in a loud place When you're at a standing-room only concert trying to meet up with a friend, you can't afford to give up your hard-earned spot, but you can't hear a damn thing either. This is the time to text. SMS also comes in mighty handy in libraries, at parties or at religious services where talking is not possible or a no-no.
• Flirt So that girl gave you her phone number but you're not sure how she feels about you. A text message "hi" or **iley can help confirm or deny your hunch she's into you. If she doesn't respond? Take comfort in the fact that rejection is a lot easier when it's not face to face.
• Set up a good time to call Wanna have a long gossip session with a long-distance friend, or an involved phone meeting with a co-worker? Send a text asking "When's a good time to call about X." It can help prepare the callee for a long talk avoid the "I have to go, call you later?"
• "Ping" your sweetheart A "Thinking of you :)" text message is a surefire way to make Special Someone **ile. Up your karma points and spread love just because you can with SMS.
• Look up street addresses and other info Send Google an SMS to look up phonebook listings and dictionary definiti***. Yahoo! SMS provides local business information (great for finding restaurants, theaters, or other businesses on the go) as well as stock quotes, horoscopes and weather. 4INFO's SMS search offers web search, sports scores, movie times and more. Just text a question or keyword search to any of those services special numbers and you'll get an immediate resp***e with results.
• Text yourself driving directi*** Yahoo! Local can SMS a link to view driving directi*** on your web-enabled mobile phone for a handy navigational reference on the go.

新手快速入门指南

要发送短信息，请创建新消息并从**通讯录中添加收件人。向支持SMS的**发送信息时，只需要收件人在“收件人：”字段中的电话号码。然后，用**上的数字键键入信息的正文，然后按几下，就能得到你想要的字母。例如，如果你想要字母“B”，点击“2”两次。您将看到2键将滚动与它相关的所有字母-首先是“A”，然后是“B”

这是一种非常不方便的打字方式吗？绝对地但是有一些方法可以让它变得更容易一些。

省省你的大拇指吧

• Use message templates After awhile you'll notice you send the same kinds of messages over and over. Set up templates for your most-used messages - like "Running late, be there in" or "Call me when you get a chance" to avoid repetitive thumbing.
• Turn on predictive text Many modern phones offer a "predictive text" feature, which takes away the need to hit numeric keys multiple times to get the letter you want. Thumb out the numbers that contain the letters in a word by pressing each just once, and your phone will automatically predict what word you intended, saving t*** of keypresses over time. Here's what predictive text looks like on my Nokia 7610:

当你不在电脑旁时，短信是一种极好的交流方式，可以轻松访问IM或电子邮件。但是也有一些方法可以从桌面使用SMS。

当你在电脑前

• Send text messages from AOL instant messenger to a phone Add a phone number preceded by a plus sign, and send a text message to it using AIM. More on AIM to SMS here.
• SMS from the Web Many mobile services offer an SMS from the Web service, like this form at Cingular you can access from any web browser. Yahoo! Mobile offers a Web to SMS service too.
• SMS via email Many mobile service providers allow you to send a text message to a phone via email using a special email address. Find out more here.
• Manage a Bluetooth phone text messages on a Mac Previously-mentioned BluePhoneElite's SMS center lets you manage text messages on your Mac desktop as if they are email messages. (Hey, Windows users: know of a similar app for the PC?)

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