Sony Ericsson W550i User Manual page 15

W550i-UG-R1A-AE.book Page 15 Wednesday, September 7, 2005 2:10 PM
Phone Language
Select the language for phone menus
or the languages that you may use when writing.
To change the phone language
} Settings }
• the General
} Phone
Language. Select a language.
• From standby, you can also press:
8888 for automatic language (SIM)
0000 for English.
Most SIM cards automatically set the menu language
to the country where you bought your SIM card. If not,
the predefined language is English.
To select writing language
} Settings }
1 the General
} Writing
Language.
2 Scroll to the language that you want to use
} Save
and mark it.
Entering Letters
and Characters
When writing messages and notes there
are two ways to enter letters and characters:
• Multitap text input
• T9™ Text Input.
} Language
tab
} Language
tab
to exit the menu.
Getting to Know Your Phone
To enter letters using multitap input
• Press – repeatedly until the desired
character appears on the screen.
• Press to shift between capital
and lower-case letters.
• Press and hold –
• Press to delete letters and 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
For example, if you want to write the word
"Jane", press ,
2 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
alternative words. Accept a word and add
a space by pressing
to enter numbers.
, , .
repeatedly to view
.
15