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User Manual M70 / M80 / M90
Getting to know
Letter modes
In letter mode, i.e., when editing the names in your contacts, pause briefly after each character until
the cursor has moved forward (Fig. 1). When you are done editing the name, press the function key
underneath
Save
or the center of the navigation key.
Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
• To type one of the letters printed on a key, press the key one, two, three, or four times quickly to
type the first, second, third, or fourth letter printed on the key. In small letter mode, for example,
as indicated by
abc
in the lower left corner of the editing text field (Fig. 2, above), press key
once to type an
m
, twice to type an
n
, and three times to type an
0
.
Pressing the key quickly more often than 4 or 5 times will produce any available letters with
accents and umlauts. For example: Press key
with the vowel
o
seven times to type the
French
ô
, eight times to type the German umlaut
ö
.
• Typing the number or symbol on the key:
◦
If there are three letters printed on the key, press the key 4 times quickly to type the number;
if there are four letters, press the key 5 times.
◦
Press the keys
,
, and
once to type the characters
1
,
*
, or
#
, respectively.
◦
Press the key
once to enter a space, twice quickly to type the character
0
.
• Adding punctuation and special symbols like @. In all letter modes, punctuation marks and
special symbols are available from the symbols screen. Press the function key underneath
Symbol
(Fig. 2) to display the table of symbols. Use the navigation keys to navigate to the symbol
(the comma, in our example) and press
Select
or the center of the navigation key to add the
symbol to the text (Fig. 3).
Alternatively, you can also press
quickly until the desired symbol is on-screen, then pause
briefly until the cursor has moved forward.
• Press the function key underneath
Clear
to delete the character to the left of the cursor.
• Letter modes.
The default setting is "name mode", i.e., the first letter is upper-case, followed by lower-case
letters, eliminating the need to toggle between upper and lower-case letter modes.