Text Entry; Mode Change; T9 ® English Text Input - NEC N820 Manual

Text Entry

This section describes how you enter text. The same method of text entry can be used in phonebook editing.

Mode change

With a text entry screen displayed, press Softkey 1 to change the text entry mode.
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Chinese mode: T9 Chinese stroke, T9
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English mode: T9 English text, Normal text (ABC), Numeric input
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T9 English text input
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Your phone incorporates T9 Text Input, enabling fast, easy and intuitive text input. For each letter to be keyed in, you only need to press the alphanumeric key once.
The screen will display the word you may require based on the internal English dictionary of your phone.
With a text entry screen displayed, press Softkey 1 until the entry mode is T9
i) For example, to enter "Good":
Press 4 6 6 3, and then press 0 to confirm the word.
ii) To enter "Peter is good":
Press to shift to upper case (for one letter). You will see a green arrow in the Help area.
Press 7 3 8 3 7 to display "Peter", and then press 0 to confirm.
Press 4 7 to display "is", and then press 0 to confirm.
Press 4 6 6 3 to display "good", and then press 0 to confirm and the sentence is completed.
Key Function
0 Confirms a word and inserts a space.
SK1, SK2 or Displays other matching words (such as home, gone, hood, etc.).
or Places the cursor.
CLR Deletes any character.
Toggles between lower case, shift (upper case for one letter) and caps lock (permanent upper case).
Activates symbol mode when no word is highlighted.
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Pinyin/Zhuyin, Numeric input, Normal text (ABC)
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English input.
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