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Entering Text
When using your phone, you will often need to
enter text, such as when storing a name in
Phonebook, creating your personal greeting or
scheduling events on your calendar. You can enter
alphanumeric characters by using your phone’s
keypad.
Your phone has the following text input modes:
• T9 mode
This mode allows you to enter words with only
one keystroke per letter. Each key on the keypad
has more than one letter – when you press the
key once, J, K or L displays. The T9 mode
automatically compares your keystrokes with an
internal linguistic dictionary to determine the
correct word, thus requiring far fewer keystrokes
than the traditional upper/lower-case character
modes.
• Upper/lower-case character modes
These modes allow you to enter letters by
pressing the key labelled with the letter you want
to enter 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.
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.
Example: Writing a text message
To select the
Press the soft key
until
T9 mode displays.
See page 44.
Upper-case character
mode A displays.
See page 45.
Lower-case character
mode a displays.
See page 45.
Symbol mode displays.
See page 47.
Number mode 1 displays.
See page 47.
918 Options
Text input mode
indicator