Samsung S500 manual Entering Text, Changing the Text Input Mode

Entering Text

At many times while you are using your phone, you need to enter text, such as when storing a name in the Phonebook, writing a new message, creating your personal greeting or scheduling events on your calendar.

You are provided with the following text input modes:

•Neopad Hindi mode*

This mode allows you to enter Hindi words with virtual keypad which gives the user option to select one of five letters assigned on keys easily and user-friendly features like built-in dictionary stored over 13,000 Hindi.

•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 – 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 required letter once, twice, three or four times until the letter displays.

•Symbolic mode

This mode allows you to enter special characters.

•Number mode

This mode allows you to enter numbers.

* is registered trademark of NEOPAD, Inc.

** 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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Entering Text

Changing the Text Input Mode

When you are in a field that allows characters to be entered, you will see the text input mode indicator at the bottom of the display.

Example: Entering a name in Phonebook

Enter name

			Text input mode indicator:
Ok	16	Eng
			T9 English mode

To change to another text input mode:

1.Press the right soft key indicating the current text input mode.

2.Scroll to the mode you want to use by pressing the Up or Down key.

You can use the Add word option to add new words into the T9 dictionary. See page 43.

The Language select option allows you to change the text input language.

Note: If you want to exit the menu without changing

the mode, press the soft key or key.

3.Press the Select soft key to confirm the highlighted text input mode.

Quickly Changing the Text Input Mode

To switch between the Press and hold the

Number and previous mode key.

Symbol and previous mode key.

ABC and T9 modes	right soft key.
(English input mode)

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