Sony Ericsson Z1010, User Manual

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Getting to know your phone
• My words – manage the words that you have
added to the dictionary.
• Fuzzy Pinyin – when turned on more words
will be available for selection. For example,
if you write
tan , Off mode: tan , tao . On mode:
tan , tao , tang .
• National chars. – Turn off language-specific
characters to save space. This option appears
only for some writing languages.
Chinese input
This mobile phone has different writing 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
writing methods
In the Chinese editing mode, you can select and
switch quickly to another writing method by
pressing and holding
.
General instructions
Regardless of which writing 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, move the cursor to the
character and press .
You can also press and hold the key
corresponding to the number above the candidate
you want to enter.
To switch writing languages, press and hold
.