Text to picture message charges

• Use normal characters like brackets and colons that can be changed by your phone into emoticons – for example, writing : ) can be automatically converted to a smiley face
• Write a really long text message, your phone could change it into a picture message – usually more than 160 characters
• Use emoji or emoticons (smiley faces, symbols and so on), particularly if you’ve downloaded extra ones from an app onto your phone
• Send a contact card or business card
• Send a group message, for example when you get a new phone
• Add attachments to text messages
  

Sometimes (but not always), your phone will flash up an alert that says ‘converting to MMS’ or something similar.

Remember that all phones and smartphones vary, so please check your phone’s manual to see what your device will do.