Text Entry Tips; T9® Text Input - Siemens S46 User Manual

Text Entry Tips

When entering text for address book
listings, SIM phone book entries, e-
mails, SMS messages
or for any other application,
please keep in mind the following
helpful hints:
*
Press before entering text to toggle
between UPPERCASE and lowercase
letters. Press twice to toggle between
letters and digits.
1
to end a word and add a
Press
blank space .
0
to end a word and add a period.
Press
It also acts as a wildcard character for an
apostrophe or hyphen in a word. For
example, §Provider.s§
„
Press to move the cursor to the right.
Ends a word.
#
to temporarily deactivate T9.
Press
Press once again to reactivate T9.
Special characters
Press the key repeatedly until the letter is
displayed. To write special characters after
numbers (for example, 5£), press
to switch to letter mode.
1
1
Blank
. , ? ! 0 + -
0
¡ " '
*
* / (
# @ \
#
Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω
Text Messaging
= Provider's.
*
€ £ $ ¥ ¤
: ¿
; _
) < = > % ~
Γ ∆ Θ Λ
& §
T9 Text Input
®
T9 Text Input determines likely word
matches from individual key entries
by making comparisons with an ex-
tensive dictionary.
Select T9 text input
To select T9 text input for message
composition:
§OK§
...
-
Enter text using T9
Press the keys once where the rele-
vant letters are located. For example,
to enter the word "hotel":
4 6 8 3 5
first
T9 even converts language-specific
special characters (such as ä, à). Sim-
ply compose the message using the
respective standard character, for ex-
A
ample,
If the word that T9 suggest is not
what you intended, see "T9 word
suggestions, " page 38.
Select soft key to open
text options menu
while in message
composition screen.
Scroll to select
T9 preferred
then select
set T9 as default. (You
may also select the
language you wish to
use for composition by
T9 language
selecting
scrolling to the language.)
Press to return to
message composition.
hotel
instead of Ä.
37
T9 input
,
to
and
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