
Phone Basics
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Touch the alphabetic keys to enter letters. Touch and hold a key to enter the number or symbol
located on the top of the key. Keep holding the key to bring up a series of characters available
on that key, including associated accented letters, symbols or numbers.
For example, in English mode, touch and hold
to enter
5
. Keep holding
to open a
character and number list. You can select to enter
T
,
þ
,
^
, or
5
.
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Touch
to use uppercase or lowercase. This key also indicates the current case:
for
lowercase,
for uppercase, and
when locked in uppercase.
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Touch and hold
to open a pop-up menu for language selection.
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Touch
to select numbers and symbols. Touch
to enter the alternate symbol on a key.
Touch to go back to enter letters. Touch and hold
to open a simple keyboard and you can
enter numbers and certain symbols.
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Touch
to enter emoticon. Touch and hold the key to find more emoticons.
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Touch
to delete a character before the cursor. Touch and hold
to delete all
characters before the cursor.
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Touch
to use voice input.
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Touch and hold
to open the Swype settings.
To enter text via Swype:
Move your finger from letter to letter to trace a word without lifting the finger until you reach the end
of the word.
The following example shows how to enter the word “here”. Put your finger on “h”, and without
lifting, slide it to “e”, and then to “r”, and back to “e”. When complete, lift your finger off the screen
and the matched words are displayed.