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Understanding Your Phone 46
Using the Samsung Keyboard
The Samsung keyboard is a custom virtual QWERTY
keyboard, featuring optional predictive text. Input characters
by touching the onscreen keys with your finger or use speech
recognition.
You can enable predictive text, to have the Samsung
keyboard match your key touches to common words and
display them. The Personalization option learns from Gmail,
Facebook, and Twitter. Log into these applications to enable
the Samsung keyboard to learn from your text input.
Configuring the Samsung Keyboard
You can configure the Samsung keyboard to your
preferences. While entering text:
Touch and hold
Options
on the keyboard and then
touch
Settings
in the pop-up menu.
The Samsung keyboard settings screen displays.
For more information, refer to
Entering Upper and Lower Case Letters
The default case is lower case (abc). Enter upper and lower
case alphabet letters by touching the Shift key
to toggle
the case, before touching the letter keys.
•
Touch once to switch from abc to Abc mode.
•
Touch twice to switch to ABC mode. When ABC mode is
enabled, the Shift key background turns blue
.
Entering Symbols and Numbers
The number keys are displayed at the top of the keyboard
and are always available.
To enter common symbols, touch
to switch to symbol
mode, then touch the corresponding key.
There are three pages of symbols. Touch
to switch to the
next page.
Touch and hold a vowel key (A, E, I, O, U, or Y) or the C, N, or
S key to open a small window where you can chose an
accented vowel or other alternate letter. Slide to the letter
until it is highlighted, and release.
Touch and hold the Period key ( . ) to open a small window
with a set of common symbols.
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