15
Getting to Know Your Phone
Phone Language
Select the language for phone menus
or the languages that you may use when writing.
To change the phone language
•
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Settings
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the
General
tab
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Language
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Phone Language
. Select a language.
• From standby, you can also press:
8888
for automatic language (SIM)
0000
for English.
To select writing language
1
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Settings
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the
General
tab
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Language
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Writing Language
.
2
Scroll to the language that you want to use
and mark it.
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Save
to exit the menu.
Entering Letters
and Characters
When writing messages and notes there
are two ways to enter letters and characters:
• Multitap text input
• T9™ Text Input.
To enter letters using multitap input
• Press
–
repeatedly until the desired
character appears on the screen.
• Press
to shift between capital
and lower-case letters.
• Press and hold
–
to enter numbers.
• Press
to delete letters and numbers.
• Press
for the most common punctuation
marks.
• Press
to add a space.
T9™ Text Input
The T9 Text Input method uses a built-in dictionary
to recognize the most commonly used word for
each sequence of key presses. This way, you press
each key only once, even if the letter you want
is not the first letter on the key.
To enter letters using T9 Text Input
1
For example, if you want to write the word
“Jane”,
press , , , .
2
If the word shown is the one you want,
press
to accept and add a space.
To accept a word without adding a space,
press
. If the word shown is not the one
you want, press
or
repeatedly to view
alternative words. Accept a word and add
a space by pressing
.
Most SIM cards automatically set the menu language
to the country where you bought your SIM card. If not,
the predefined language is English.
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