Text Input - Siemens S40 User Manual

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Text input

Using the keypad
The characters available on each
Each key on your phone's keypad
key will depend on the keypad lan-
contains a number of characters.
guage you have selected for your
The keypad can be operated in 4
phone (see p. 70). The keypad lan-
ways: Alphanumeric wheel and grid
guage is standard set to the GSM
modes, T9 mode, which is very
default alphabet, giving you the fol-
useful in connection with SMS
lowing characters.
messages, plus digit-only mode.
Switching between the different
modes is done by pressing the
side key on the right-hand of the
phone.
Press »CLEAR« briefly to delete
one character.
Press »CLEAR« for one second
to delete the entire text.
Address and phone books
wheel mode
Having selected English as keypad
language, the following characters
will be available on each key:
Press once to enter the first charac-
ter, twice to enter the second char-
acter, etc.
Address and phone books
Press
3 times if you want to
bol
will be seen in the upper
enter a capital letter. To activate the
right-hand corner of the display.
caps lock function, press
4
Press
times. Press it once again to deac-
caps lock function.
tivate the function.
Press
digits. Press the relevant key to
grid mode
enter the intended digit.
Press the relevant key for the
To get punctuation and symbols
intended letter, e.g. B. Now a table
press
is shown in the display. Press the
to five different pages, each con-
key corresponding to the intended
taining up to 9 symbols. You can
letter (B = 2).
scroll through the pages using the
Which characters available on
arrow keys. Press the relevant key
each key will depend on the key-
to enter the intended symbol, e.g.
pad language you have selected for
on page one, 7 corresponds to "@" .
your phone (see p. 70). Additional
language specific characters are
mode
accessed by pressing
.
T9® Text Input is a feature enabling
The first letter will always be capi-
you to more easily use SMS mes-
talized, which is indicated by the
saging. The T9 feature allows you to
symbol in the upper right-hand
compose text messages with only
corner of the display. The second
one keypress per letter. See p. 46.
letter will automatically be lower-
mode
case. Press
if you want to
In this mode you can enter only
enter a capital letter again.
digits.
The caps lock function is enabled
by pressing
twice. As long
as the caps lock is active, the sym-
again to disable the
if you want to enter
. You now have access
Facts & Tips
• Please observe that changing the
menu language of your phone will not
affect the keypad language and the T9
language as they are totally independ-
ent. Changing the keypad and T9 lan-
guage is done manually in the
Message Setup menu.
• When you change the menu lan-
guage of your phone, it is advisable to
change the keypad language accord-
ingly.
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