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Getting to know the phone
Draft for Sony Ericsson Internal Use Only -Z712a PA1
•
Press
to shift between capital
and lower-case letters.
•
Press and hold
-
to enter
numbers.
•
Press
to delete letters or
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
To enter text, you have to be in a
function where text input is possible,
for example,
}
Messaging
}
Write
New
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Text Message
.
2
For example, to write the word “Jane”,
press , , , .
3
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.
4
Continue writing the message. To
enter a punctuation mark, press
and then
or
repeatedly, press
to accept and add a space.
To add words to the T9 Text Input
dictionary
1
When entering letters
}
More
}
Spell
Word
.
2
Edit the word by using multitap input.
Use
and
to move the cursor
between the letters. To delete a
character, press
. To delete the
entire word, press and hold
.
When you have edited the word
}
Insert
. The word is added to the T9
Text Input dictionary. Next time you
enter this word using T9 Text Input, it
appears in alternative words.
Next word prediction
When writing a message, you can use
T9 Text Input to predict the next word,
if previously used in a sentence.
To turn next word prediction on/off
When entering letters
}
More
}
Writing Options
}
Next Word Pred
.
To use next word prediction
When entering letters, press
to
accept or continue.
