Nokia 3205 manual Predictive text input, Activate/deactivate, Text entry

■Predictive text input

Predictive text input allows you to write messages quickly using your keypad and the phone’s built-in dictionary. It is much faster the standard mode method, because for each letter, you only press the corresponding key on your keypad once.

Activate/deactivate

At any text entry screen, press and hold Options. Predictive text (Dictionary) is turned on and off, depending on its previous mode.

OR

1.At any text entry screen, select Options > Dictionary and press Select.

2.Scroll to the language of your choice and press Select.

Note: The language setting affects the time and date formats of the clock, alarm clock, and calendar.

Text entry

The illustration below simulates your display each time a key is pressed. For example, to write Nokia with predictive text on and with the English dictionary selected, press each of the following keys once:

the 6 key the 6 key the 5 key the 4 key the 2 key

T e x t e n t r y

•Press the 0 key to enter a space and begin writing the next word.

•If a displayed word is not correct, press the * key to see other matches. To return to the previous word in the list of matches, press Previous.

•If ? appears after a word, press Spell to add the word to the dictionary.

•Press the 1 key to insert a period into your message.

•Press and hold the * key to display special characters. Press the * key again to cycle through all available characters.

•Press the # key to switch predictive text on or off and to use predictive text in various modes. As you press the # key, the following icons (not the descriptions) appear in the upper left of the display screen:

Uppercase text; standard mode is On

Lowercase text; standard mode is On

Sentence case text; standard mode is On

Sentence case text; predictive text is On

Lowercase text; predictive text is On

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