Entering Letters And Characters - Sony Ericsson S500 User Manual

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To change the phone language
1 From standby select
} General
Language.
2 Select a language.
Most SIM cards automatically set the
menu language to the country where
you bought your SIM card. If not, the
predefined language is English.

Entering letters and characters

Enter characters using:
•
Multitap text input
•
T9™ Text Input
To change the text input method
•
When you enter letters, press and hold
down
Options when entering letters
•
Select More.
To enter letters using multitap input
•
Press
desired character appears.
•
Press
and lower-case letters.
•
Press and hold down
enter numbers.
•
Press
numbers.
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Menu } Settings
} Language } Phone
tab
.
- repeatedly until the
to shift between capital
-
to delete letters or
( ( ( ) ) )
•
Press
punctuation marks.
•
Press
T9™ Text Input
The T9 Text Input method uses a built-
in dictionary.
To use T9™ Text Input
1 From standby select
} Messaging } Write New } Text
Message.
2 Press each key only once, even if
the desired letter is not the first letter
on the key. For example, to write the
word "Jane", press
. Enter the full word before looking
at the choices.
•
Press
•
Press
add a space.
•
Press
adding a space.
•
Press
enter a punctuation mark.
•
Press
entered.
To add words to the T9 Text Input
to
dictionary
1 When entering letters, select
} Spell
Word.
2 Edit the word by using multitap input.
3 Select Insert.
Getting to know the phone
for the most common
to add a space.
Menu
, ,
or for word choices.
to accept a word and
to accept a word without
and then or to
to delete the last letter
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