Getting Started
Basic Operations
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Airplane Mode
Airplane mode turns off all functions that emit or receive signals, while leaving your phone on so you
can use apps that don’t require a signal or data.
To turn on or off airplane mode:
1. Press and hold the
Power/Lock
key to display the device options menu.
2. Tap
Airplane mode
.
Your phone is now in or out of airplane mode. In airplane mode, you will see the airplane
mode icon
in the status bar.
Tip
: You can also access airplane mode through the quick settings menu. Pull down the status bar
with two fingers and tap
Airplane mode
.
Enter Text
You can type on your phone using one of the available touchscreen keyboards or Google voice
typing.
Touchscreen Keyboards
Your phone offers you a choice of two touchscreen keyboards for entering text. The keyboard
appear automatically onscreen when you tap a text entry field, and they can be used in either
portrait or landscape mode. You can also use the Google Voice typing option to enter text using
your voice (see
for details).
The methods available include:
n
Google keyboard
lets you use a traditional QWERTY setup to enter text. Additional options
expand your ability to enter text faster and more accurately. See
n
TouchPal keyboard
lets you use Curve
®
to speed up text input by replacing key-tapping
gesture with tracing gesture where you move your finger from letter to letter without lifting the
finger until you reach the end of each word. See