Android 2.3 User Manual

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Reading your messages
You can read messages in your Combined Inbox or in the Inbox or other folders for 
individual accounts.
When you receive a new message, you also receive a notification in the Status bar, 
unless you’ve turned off Email notifications using the Email Account settings, where 
you can also set whether Email notifications vibrate the phone and pick a ringtone. 
See “Change an account’s settings” on page 220. When you touch an Email 
notification, it opens the combined Inbox.
Read a message
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Open the Combined Inbox, an account’s Inbox, or another folder of messages.
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Touch the message to read.
The message opens in a screen with information about who sent it, the date it was 
sent, and related information at the top, followed by the contents of the message.
Some attached images are displayed in the message; others have buttons for 
opening them. Attachments you download are stored on your phone’s USB 
Touch an arrow to read the next or 
previous message in the folder.
Sender’s Google Talk online status.
Open or save an attachment.
Touch to reply to or delete the message.