
Section 2A: Your Phone – The Basics
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Entering Text
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Your phone provides convenient ways to enter words, letters,
punctuation, and numbers whenever you are prompted to
enter text (for example, when adding a Contacts entry or
when using Sprint PCS Mail and SMS Text Messaging).
To change the character input mode:
1.
When you display a screen where you can enter text,
press the right softkey to change the character input
mode.
2.
Select one of the following options:
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Abc
to cycle through the alpha characters associated
with the letters on the keypad (see page 38).
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T9Word
to enter text using a predictive text entering
system that reduces the amount of keys that need to
be pressed while entering a word (see page 36).
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123
to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on
the keypad (see page 39).
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Symbols
to enter symbols (see page 39).
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Smileys
to enter “emoticons”(see page 39).
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Recent messages
to enter a recent message.
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Preset messages
to enter preprogrammed messages
(see page 39).
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Preset suffix
to enter preset suffix such as
http://www., https://www., www., .com, .net , .org,
.edu, .wap, //, ","", (), {}, [], <>, <<>>
Tip:
When entering text, press the
*
(Shift) key to change letter
capitalization (
Abc > ABC > abc
).
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