Write Text; Use Predictive Text - Nokia 216 Dual SIM User Manual

Write text

Writing with the keypad is easy and fun.
Press a key repeatedly until the letter is shown.
Type in a space
Press 0.
Type in a special character or punctuation mark
Press *.
Switch between character cases
Press # repeatedly.
Type in a number
Press and hold a number key.

Use predictive text

To speed up your writing, your phone can guess what you are starting to write. Predictive text is based
on a built-in dictionary. This feature is not available for all languages.
1. Select Options > Dictionary and the language.
2. Start writing a word. When the word you want is shown, press 0.
Change a word
Press * repeatedly until the word you want is shown.
Add a new word to the dictionary
If the word you want isn't in the dictionary, write the word, press * repeatedly to skip all unwanted
words, select Spell, and write the word.
Switch between predictive and traditional text
Press # repeatedly.
Switch predictive text off
Select Options > Dictionary > Dictionary off.
Use the pinyin method
Learn how to use the pinyin symbols to write Chinese characters with the keypad.
Pinyin symbols are mapped to the number keys. Select each key once, regardless of the position of the
symbol on the number key. The phone makes logical combinations of the pinyin symbols.
Make sure the phone language is Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese.