How to know if my iPhone is using iMessage or texts?

I have an iPhone 5 with no texting plan( everyone has iPhone so there's kinda no point in paying when there's iMessage) and when I turn I message on it says activation unsucsessful but to test it I sent a text from my iPod touch and I received it on my phone, so is this using iMessage? My iPhone still says iMessage activation unsuccessful but I did receive the text and on the top of the chat it says IMessage so is it working or am I paying per text?

IMessage is in blue and white writing and ou have to be texting an iPad, iPhone, ect…

Call apple or your provider customer service

Imessage is only for apple products as in ipods iphones ipads macbooks

There practicaly the same thing! Don't worry i have an iPhone the messaging works fine.

Very easy,

A regular text message will be in a green bubble.

An iMessage will be in a blue bubble, and will also have "Delivered" and sometimes "Read" (depending on the settings of the receiving device) under the messages you send.

Also, when you receive a message, the alert will come up and say the name of the sender, then either text message or iMessage.

IMessage = blue bubble
Regular texts = green bubble

IMessage bubbles are blue, compared to regular, which are green.

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