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Multitap standard text input
When you are in Multitap mode (sometimes
called multipress mode), you enter a letter by
pressing the number key on which the letter is
printed. Press the key repeatedly until the
required character is displayed. If you pass
the character you want, keep pressing the key
to scroll through all the characters again.
For example, to enter the letter "r" press 7
three times.
If a word you are entering contains two
consecutive letters which are located on the
same key, enter the first one and then wait for
the cursor to reappear before entering the
second.
Also, you will notice that some intelligent
features are built in. For example, when
entering the first word in a sentence, the text
input mode changes automatically from
upper case to lower case after the first letter.
Some punctuation marks (including full stops,
hyphens and apostrophes) are available on
1. Alternatively, press and hold # to pick
a symbol to insert from the character table
(see the Entering symbols section below).
When you have finished entering a word,
press # to enter a space and move on to
the next word.
For example, to enter the name "Ross" when
you are in lower case mode:
Press * to enter upper case mode,
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Press 7 three times, to display "R", you
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will then return to lower case mode.
Press 6 three times, to display "o".
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Press 7 four times, to display "s". Now
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pause slightly until the cursor reappears.
Then press 7 four times, to display "s".
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Predictive text input
To save time when you are writing a text
message or MMS message, your phone has
a built-in dictionary feature which uses the
letters that you are typing to complete the
word.
This input method allows you to simply press
each key once. For example, to write the
name "Ross", press 7, then 6, then 7,
then 7 just once each.
The word may change as you type, but don't
worry about what is on the screen until you
have finished the word. Sometimes different
words share the same sequence of key
presses. If the finished word is wrong, press
0 to scroll through other possibilities. If the
word that you are looking for is still not there,
press * repeatedly to change the text mode
to β or α and enter the word again.
After you have completed a word, press the
space key # to enter a space and move on
to the next word. Press and hold # to pick
a symbol to insert from the character table
(see the Entering symbols section below).
Some intelligent punctuation (including full
stops, hyphens and apostrophes) are also
available on 1. The punctuation mark is
completed when you enter the next keystroke.
Entering numbers
To enter a number in upper case or lower
case text input mode, simply press the
number key repeatedly until the number is
displayed.
To enter a number in predictive text input
mode, press the number key and then scroll
through the characters (by pressing 0) until
the number is displayed.
If you have multiple numbers to enter, it is
often more convenient to use the numeric
input mode. Press * repeatedly to change
the mode to θ. Now whenever you press
any of the number keys, only the number is
entered.
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