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Entering Text
The phone allows you to enter characters for
messages and names in Chinese and English. To
enter Chinese text, the phone provides several
widely used pronunciation based (Pinyin) and
character shape based (Stroke) input methods to
meet the preferences of different users, allowing for
greater convenience and ease of use.
You can also enter any combination of Chinese
characters, alphabets, numbers, and special
symbols including punctuation marks.
The following the text input modes are available on
your phone:
• Pinyin mode
• Chinese Simplified Stroke mode
• Quick English mode (T9 mode)
*
• English mode
• Chinese Traditional Stroke mode
• Number mode
• Symbolic mode
• Add word mode
Directions for using each of the text input modes
appears later in this section.
*
is a registered trademark of Tegic Communications, Inc. and
is licensed under U.S. Patent 5,818,437/ 5,953,541/ 6,011,554.
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 see the text input mode indicator
at the bottom of the display.
Example: Entering a name in Phonebook
To change to another text input mode:
1. Press the right soft key indicating the current
text input mode.
2. Scroll to the mode you want to use by pressing
the Up or Down key.
You can use the
Add word
option to add new
words into the T9 dictionary. See page 47.
Note
: If you want to exit the menu without
changing the mode, press the
soft key or
key.
3. Press the
Select
soft key to confirm the
highlighted text input mode.
4. The selected text input mode indicator on the
bottom of the display.
Enter name
Ok
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Text input mode
indicator: Chinese
Pinyin mode
