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Using your phone
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Text Input
Depending on the selected language, the phone provides you with four different modes of text
input when writing SMS or Names in the
Names list:
• the T9™ Text Input (Eng),
• a Basic text input (Abc),
• a mode for numbers (123),
• a mode for punctuation marks and symbols (%!?).
To access one of these modes, press key.
T9™ Text Input
T9™ Text Input is an intelligent input for SMS & phonebook that analyses keystrokes to come
up with the right word. It is a fast and simple way to enter information on the phone. It is a very
efficient method of text input that requires just one key press per letter; the other available
method (Basic text input as described in section below) requires the user to press a key the
number of times corresponding to the original position of the character on the key. For
example, entering the English word "easy" requires only 4 key presses with T9™ Text Input, but
as many as 10 key presses when using Basic Text Input, therefore, a significant productivity
advantage exists with T9™ Text Input.
How to use T9™ Text Input
While in this mode, the alphabets and symbols represented by each key are:
The sequence for T9™ Text Input text input is:
Please follow the above sequence. You need to press the key for the corresponding alphabet
only once. You do not have to consider the order of the alphabets indicated on the keys, as the
T9™ Text Input will form the words automatically and all possible word combinations of the
key presses will be available for your selection. After you have entered all the alphabets, the
screen will show the most probable and most commonly used English word for your
consideration. If that is not the desired word, you can press
to select the next English
word, until the desired word appears on screen. Press to confirm and the desired word
will be entered and a space will appear automatically after the word to facilitate your entering
of the next word.
Confirm
ABC
DEF
GHI JKL MNO
PQRS TUV WXYZ
Typing mode
Scroll
Shift
ENTER TEXT: En
T9
Good
1 key in alphabets using to , to clear
2 select word using
3 confirm word or for punctuation marks
( ' . , ! ? " @ )