Tracfone Text Message
Sending . . .It's simple to send a Tracfone text message . You have to get to the "Create message" command on your phone. On the Motorola C261, for example, you select:
The procedure is more or less the same on other phones. Similarly most phones have a shortcut to the "Create message" command. Each phone also has slightly different conventions on how to enter things like upper and lower case letters, etc., but almost no one uses these options. It costs 0.30 units to send or receive a plain SMS Tracfone text message. Receiving . . .The formal way of checking your inbox for text messages is to again go through the Menu -> Messages -> Inbox -> Read. However when you receive a message you can just select it from the screen and it should display for you.Emailing . . .SMS tracfone text message by email? No.Can you email a text message to your Tracfone? According to the Tracfone's FAQ (select Features -> Text Messaging -> Can I email a text message to my phone), you can't. And that's probably technically true, in that you can't send an SMS text message to your Tracfone.But you CAN send an MMS message to your Tracfone, but, a WARNING, it costs you about two units. MMS Tracfone message via emailYou CAN send an MMS message to your Tracfone via email, but it will cost you about two units. You have to have a phone that can receive MMS messages. Then you need to find out your local cell phone network that Tracfone uses. You can find this out by sending an MMS message to your email address. You can then hit "Reply". And type in your message!
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