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The Nokia Shorty's phone book has multiple fields. The phone sends and receives short emails from its own email address (telephone number followed by vmobl.com). The display is monochromatic, visible in sunlight or at night with a white LED backlight which also gives an illuminated keyboard.

Learning the T9 text system is the key to making SMS messages usable and fun, but study the manual or tutorial website first because you'll never work out how it functions by 'trial and error'. Unlike, say, touch typing, however, there is no great skill involved, T9 texting is simply a matter of intellectually understanding the principle and rules.

In the UK, Virgin Mobile uses a completely different phone system and your US-purchased phone won't work. But I just purchased a similar inexpensive Nokia phone from a Virgin Megastore in England for about $30--much less than a short-term cell-phone rental. One difference between the US/UK phones and service: the UK phone has no email address, sadly (if you need an email address in the UK, try T-Mobile's pay as you go service).]]> Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:08:53 GMT Web Crossing(r) Unix-v6.0 built Oct 8 2008 13:12:02 (source:1163 2008-09-24 11:42:21 -0700)/Macintosh-OSX-10.4-6.0 (http://webcrossing.com/) http://backend.userland.com/rss