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Enter text
Chinese Phrasal Pinyin, Chinese Stroke, T9 English,
ABC, Number, and Symbol modes
You can enter text for some features, such as
Messages, Phonebook, or Calendar, by using
Phrasal Pinyin, and Stroke modes for Chinese,
and English word and ABC modes for English.
You can also enter numbers and symbols.
Changing the text input mode
• Press the right soft key and select the text
input mode you want.
• Press and hold [ ] to quickly switch to
Symbol mode.
Using Chinese Phrasal Pinyin
mode
Pinyin is a system to enter Chinese words by
spelling them phonetically (how they sound)
using the Latin alphabet. With the Pinyin input
method, you can enter Chinese characters by
entering the Pinyin string using the phone’s
keypad.
Your phone provides you with Phrasal Text
Input (PTI) mode, an advanced Pinyin mode
which predicts not only words, but phrases for
your key presses. Using PTI mode, you can also
add new words or phrases to the PTI dictionary.
Phrasal Pinyin (
) Phrasal S Stroke
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T Stroke (
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Number (
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Symbol (No indicator) T9 Eng (
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ABC (
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