Device Basics
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Enter Text
You can type on your device using one of the available touchscreen keyboards.
Touchscreen Keyboards
Tips for Editing Text
Text Input Settings
Touchscreen Keyboards
The touchscreen keyboards let you enter text directly onscreen. You can choose the Android
keyboard input or Swype input.
Android Keyboard
The Android Keyboard provides a layout similar to a desktop computer keyboard. Turn the
phone sideways and the keypad will change from portrait to landscape.
To use the landscape keyboard, just tick the
Auto-rotate screen
check box in
Settings
>
Display
. (The landscape QWERTY keyboard is not supported in all applications.)
Tip:
Hold the input box and select
Input method
from the pop-up menu to change input
method.
● Touch the alphabetic keys to enter letters. Touch and hold some specific keys to enter
associated accented letters or numbers. For example, to enter È, touch and hold
and
the available accented letters and number 3 appear. Then slide to choose È.
● Touch
to use uppercase or lowercase. This key also indicates the current case:
for lowercase,
for uppercase, and
when locked in uppercase.
● Touch
to delete the text before the cursor.
