How to Send a text message with an Android cell phone

With the Android platform on a large amount of mobile phones today, chances are you have one. Sometimes messaging on the phones can be a little confusing, but there's a simple explanation for texting your friends and family. Best Buy has answers. The Best Buy Mobile team explains how simple it is to send a text message on your Android enabled cell phone.

Rusty: "Hi, I'm Rusty, I'm the Sales Lead at Best Buy Mobile in Chelsea, New York and I'm gonna show you how to send a text message with your Android Phone. You'll just select the message widget on your Android device which will take you to your messaging main menu. You can see your messaging history beneath the compose a message icon, which we will select. Once here, it will ask you to place in a telephone number or a name. If you were to insert that automatically, the numbers will pop up; or, if you spell a name, the names will pop up. I'm going to send my friend Brandy a text message. Tap here to compose and you can either fill out with the full QWERTY keyboard vertically or horizontally. The messaging system will integrate into a full landscape keyboard if you have big thumbs or like a wide keyboard stance. Simply input your text here. You can select numbers or additional icons here with many pages to do so. You can decrease the size of your keyboard here. Once you're done typing what you want to type, hit send and you're all done."