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Getting to know your phone
•
– a list of available languages is
shown.
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– a list of methods available for
the current language is shown.
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– turn T9 text input on or off.
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– select to view, or not, word
suggestions when writing a word.
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– manage the words that you have
added to the dictionary.
Chinese input
This mobile phone has different input methods for
entering Chinese characters:
• Stroke input
• Pinyin input
You can use these methods, for example, to enter
Chinese names and Chinese short messages.
Switching between Chinese input
methods
In the Chinese editing mode, you can select and
switch quickly to another input method by pressing
and holding
.
General instructions
Regardless of which input method you choose,
your phone has a function to speed up the entry of
Chinese characters. Whenever you enter a stroke or
a Pinyin letter, a candidate row of the most
frequently used characters containing that stroke or
relating to that letter appears at the bottom of the
display.
If the character you want is not displayed in the
candidate row, press to present another candidate
row. Continue pressing until the character you
want is displayed. Alternatively, you can enter the
next stroke or Pinyin letter and a new set of
characters will immediately be displayed in the
candidate row. To go back to the previous row,
press . To select a character in the candidate row,
press the navigation key or press and hold the key
corresponding to the number above the character
you want to enter.
