Retrieving the email off your BlackBerry smartphone will keep you connected with your friends, colleagues and loved ones. Whether you want to send and receive emails using the push email feature or IM a friend using BlackBerry Messenger, it is easily done on your Sprint BlackBerry phone. Sprint offers several models, but retrieving the messages from your BlackBerry is relatively simple and the same across models.

Sending SMS or text messages back and forth to your family and friends can become costly, especially if you are paying per text message or only have an allotted amount of messages per month with your wireless plan before having to pay an overcharge. If you have Internet access, you will be able to send an SMS message free of cost.

SMS stands for "Short Message Service" and is more commonly referred to as a text message. SMS and text messages are 160 characters long, and are almost exclusively sent from cell phone to cell phone nowadays. Though text messaging was created in 1985, the first text message wasn't sent until 1992. Even the most basic modern phones support sending and receiving text messages. Some phones have a small embedded Qwerty keyboard, while others use the keypad by assigning three or four letters to each number.