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Section 2A: Phone Basics
Entering Text
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Your phone provides convenient ways to enter words, letters, punctuation,
and numbers whenever you are prompted to enter text (for example, when
adding a Contacts entry or when using email and SMS Text Messaging).
To change the character input mode:
1.
When you display a screen where you can enter text, press the right
softkey to change the character input mode.
2.
Select one of the following options:
䡲
VoiceMode
to enter text by speaking into your phone. Speech
is converted to text and displayed on screen (see page 124).
䡲
T9(English)
to enter text using a predictive text entering
system that reduces the number of keys that need to be
pressed while entering a word (see page 41).
䡲
Alpha
to cycle through the alpha characters associated with
the letters on the keypad (see page 42).
䡲
Symbol
to enter symbols (see page 43).
䡲
Number
to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on the
keypad (see page 43).
䡲
Preset Msg
to enter preprogrammed messages (see page 43).
䡲
Recent Msg
to enter a message from a list of previous
messages.
䡲
Emoticons
to enter “emoticons” (see page 43).
Tip:
When entering text, press the
*
(Shift) key to change letter capitalization
(
Abc
>
ABC
>
abc
).
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