Key Description
[Edit]
Since the
[Edit]
key provides some of the least used functions (opening the
Edit
menu in a text field and enabling you to select blocks of text), the Nuance
Accessibility Suite software uses this key as the default activation key for screen-
reading functions. This guide refers to the key as the
[TALKS]
key. Some Series
60 handsets do not have an
[Edit]
key; in this case,
[Menu]
serves as the
standard
[TALKS]
key on most handsets; on phones with a QWERTY
keyboard,
[CHR]
is used as the default
[TALKS]
key.
If the
[Edit]
key is the
[TALKS]
key, to select a block of text or items in a list,
press the
[TALKS]
key, press it again (you hear “TALKS Edit”), and hold it
down while you move the joystick in the appropriate direction. On handsets that
do not have an
[Edit]
key, you have to hold down
[#]
, while moving with the
cursor keys, or use the
[Shift]
key in case of a QWERTY keyboard.
[Clear]
Press this key to backspace in any text field. When a list of messages or files is
displayed, you can often use this key to delete the currently selected item.
[1], [2], ... [9]
You can use these keys to enter a phone number in the phone application. If you
press a numeric key and hold it briefly (a “long” press), the phone application
uses the speed-dialing feature to call a number that you have predefined. In other
applications, the numeric keys enable you to enter letters, digits, and punctuation
marks.
[0]
Press this key to enter a zero in the phone application. To activate the WAP
browser from the phone application, press the
[0]
key and hold it briefly. In
other applications, you can press this key to enter a space or start a new
paragraph.
[Select]
Series 60 phones have a five-way button, called a joystick, for navigating through
menus and selecting items. To select an item, press the center of the joystick
straight down. This guide uses the term
[Select]
for the center of the joystick.
The
[Select]
key enables you to quickly select a menu item, open a message, and
so on, instead of selecting the same action from the
Options
menu of an
application. If a handset offers the so-called “
Active Stand-By
” function,
[Select]
is used to activate the currently selected application icon or other
element on the Stand-By screen. If “Active Stand-By” is not available, or if it is
turned off, most handsets allow assigning applications to any of the 5 directions
of the joystick.
[*]
(Asterisk)
Press this key to enter a star in the phone application. For instance, you can
enter
*#06#
to display the IMEI number of a given phone. Press
[*]
twice in
rapid succession to enter a plus sign (+) in a phone number.
In text fields, you can use
[*]
to enter punctuation or special characters and to
select from alternative matches in the T9 dictionary. On handsets with T9 that
do not have an
[Edit]
key,
[*]
displays a list with more options, like changing
the writing language; on such devices, press
[Long *]
to access the list of
symbols.
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