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Entering Characters from the Keypad
To enter characters from the keypad, select the alpha mode.
Press the corresponding numeric key (1-9) key until the desired character appears. By default, the
initial character is uppercase followed by lowercase characters.
You will notice that when pressing the keys, the characters appear in the following order. To use this
feature, you have to press the key within two seconds, otherwise the phone moves the cursor to the
next space and waits for new input.
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1.-‘
. , ‘ &-@
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2
ABC
A B C2
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3
DEF
D EF3
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4
GHI
G HI 4
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5
JKL
J KL5
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6
MNO
MN O 6
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7
PQRS
P QR S 7
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8
TUV
T UV 8
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9
WXYZ
W X Y Z 9
Numbers and symbol entry
Numbers and symbols are entered by changing to the appropriate input mode and pressing the soft
key for the symbol you want or the digit key of the number you want.
T9
®
text entry
T9 word and T9 text input, enable you to easily enter text. T9 (for “text on 9 keys”) requires only
one key press per letter and quickly recognizes the most commonly used word of a numeric
sequence. For example, to enter the word “hello,” you can spell out the word by pressing only five
keys,
4
GHI
3
DEF
5
JKL
5
JKL
6
MNO
. T9 text input knows the most commonly used sequence for that
numeric sequence is “hello”. If two or more words share the same numeric sequence, T9 software
provides the next most commonly used word by pressing
0
. Press
0
repeatedly to display all of the
available words that T9 knows. When the word you want displays continue to enter text in the same
way or change to another text or character entry mode. If the word you want to enter is not known by
T9 press
Menu
to change the Input Mode. You can easily change the entry case of T9 by pressing
(
*
) until the entry case that you want displays. The T9 text entry case options display as follows:
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T9 WORD — All capital letters (all upper case).
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T9 Word — Initial capital letters (first letter is upper case).
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T9 word — All lower case (no capital letters).Your Sprint PCS Phone
™
provides convenient ways
to enter words, letters, punctuation and numbers.