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Section 2A: Your Phone – The Basics 35
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:
Abc to cycle through the alpha characters associated
with the letters on the keypad (see page 38).
T9Word to enter text using a predictive text-entry
system that reduces the number of keystrokes
required to enter a word (see page 36).
123 to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on
the keypad (see page 39).
Symbols to enter symbols (see page 39).
Smileys to enter “emoticons”(see page 39).
Recent Messages to enter a recent message.
Preset Messages to enter preprogrammed messages
(see page 39).
Preset suffix to enter preset suffixes such as
http://www., https://www., www., .com, .net , .org,
.edu, .wap, //, “, “”, (), {}, [], <>, and<<>>.
Tip:
When entering text, press the
*
(Shift) key to change letter
capitalization ( Abc > ABC > abc ).
Phone Basics
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