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Entering text
At many times when using your phone, you will
need to enter text, such as when storing a name
in Contacts, creating your personal greeting, or
scheduling events on your calendar. You can enter
alphanumeric characters into your phone using
your phone’s keypad.
Your phone has the following text input modes:
• T9(English) mode: This mode allows you to
enter words with only one keystroke per letter.
Each key on the keypad has more than one
letter. However, T9 mode automatically
compares the series of keystrokes you make
with an internal linguistic dictionary to
determine the most likely word, thus requiring
far fewer keystrokes than the traditional
Alphabet mode.
• Alphabet mode: This mode allows you to enter
letters by pressing the key labeled with the
letter you want. Press the key once, twice, three
or four times until it displays.
• Symbol mode: This mode allows you to enter
various symbols and special characters.
• Number mode: This mode allows you to enter
numbers.
Note: The T9 mode supplies an appropriate
language database as your language setting
menu.
Entering text
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Changing the text input mode
When you are in a field that allows characters to
be entered, you will notice the text input mode
indicator on the display.
Using T9 (English) mode
T9 is a predictive text input mode that allows you
to key in any character using single keystrokes.
This text input mode is based on a built-in
dictionary.
Note: To type words not found in T9 mode, you need
to change the text input mode to Alphabet
mode.
Using Alphabet mode
When typing in Alphabet mode, you need to press
the keys labeled with the required letter:
- once for the first letter
- twice for the second letter
- and so on
This method is called multi-tap typing.
The cursor moves to the right when you press a
different key. When entering the same letter twice
or a different letter on the same key, just wait for
a few seconds for the cursor to move to the right
automatically, and then enter the next letter.
