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Before sending an SMS message to someone, be sure that you have a contact number saved for him or her. Such contacts will have a  "SMS" icon next to their names in your contact list. If no number has been added, but you know one, you can add a phone number to a contact.

To send an SMS, select the desired recipient from your contact list. Do this by double-clicking the contact's name.



In the conversation window that appears, go to the "SMS" tab and type in your message. 

If there are several mobile phone numbers associated with a contact, then select the number you want to send the SMS to from the dropdown list.

The maximum message length in Russian is — 36 characters — or 116 Latin characters. 

You can enable auto-transliteration of text. This means that you enter text in Russian, but the recipient gets a transliteration of the message. To transliterate text before sending it, check "Auto-transliterate".

You can also use emoticons in your messages.

After you've written your message, click "Send free of charge".