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Entering text
You may need to enter text, when storing a name
in Contacts, creating your personal greeting, or
scheduling events in your calendar.
Your phone has the following text input modes:
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• T9 mode
This mode allows you to enter words with only
one keystroke per letter. Each key on the
keypad has more than one letter. For example,
when you press the 5 key once, J, K, or L may
be displayed. The T9 mode automatically
compares your keystrokes with an internal
linguistic dictionary to determine the correct
word, thus requiring far fewer keystrokes than
the traditional ABC mode.
• ABC mode
This mode allows you to enter letters by
pressing the key labelled with the letter you
want once, twice, three, or four times until the
letter is displayed.
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is a registered trademark of Tegic Communications, Inc.
and is licensed under U.S. Patent 5,818,437/ 5,953,541/
6,011,554.
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• Number mode
This mode allows you to enter numbers.
• Symbol mode
This mode allows you to enter special
characters, like punctuation marks.
Changing the text input mode
When you are in a field that allows characters to
be entered, the text input mode indicator appears
at the bottom of the display.
Example: When you write a memo, the following
screen displays:
Text input mode
indicator
Shortcuts to the text input modes
To switch between the T9 and ABC mode, press
and hold the
key not in Number or Symbol
mode but in T9 or ABC mode.
Press the
key briefly to switch input mode like
below in ABC mode.
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Press the
key briefly to switch input mode like
below in T9 mode.
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To change the input mode to Symbol mode, press
and hold the
key.
Entering text
Using T9 mode
To enter a word in the T9 mode:
1. Start entering the word by pressing the keys
2 to 9. Press each key only once for each
letter.
Example: To enter "hello" in the T9 mode,
press 4, 3, 5, 5 and 6.
The word you are entering appears on the
display. It may change with each key that you
press.
2. Enter the whole word before editing or
deleting any keystrokes.
3. If the word is correct, start entering the next
word. Otherwise, press the 0 key to display
alternative word choices for the keys that you
pressed.
Example: Both "of" and "me" have the
sequence of 6 and 3. The phone
displays the most commonly used
choice first.
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