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Text input
Using the keypad
Each key on your phone’s keypad contains a number of characters.
The keypad can be operated in 4 ways: Alphanumeric wheel and grid modes, T9 mode, which is very useful in connection with SMS messages, plus
Switching between the different modes is done by pressing the side key on the
Press »CLEAR« briefly to delete one character.
Press »CLEAR« for one second to delete the entire text.
wheel mode
The characters available on each key will depend on the keypad lan- guage you have selected for your phone (see p. 70). The keypad lan- guage is standard set to the GSM default alphabet, giving you the fol- lowing characters.
Having selected English as keypad language, the following characters will be available on each key:
Press once to enter the first charac- ter, twice to enter the second char- acter, etc.
Press 
3 times if you want to enter a capital letter. To activate the
caps lock function, press 
4 times. Press it once again to deac- tivate the function.
grid mode
Press the relevant key for the intended letter, e.g. B. Now a table is shown in the display. Press the key corresponding to the intended letter (B = 2).
Which characters available on each key will depend on the key- pad language you have selected for your phone (see p. 70). Additional language specific characters are
accessed by pressing 
.
The first letter will always be capi- talized, which is indicated by the 
symbol in the upper
case. Press 
if you want to enter a capital letter again.
The caps lock function is enabled
by pressing 
twice. As long as the caps lock is active, the sym-
bol 
will be seen in the upper
Press 
again to disable the caps lock function.
Press 
if you want to enter digits. Press the relevant key to enter the intended digit.
To get punctuation and symbols
press 
. You now have access to five different pages, each con- taining up to 9 symbols. You can scroll through the pages using the arrow keys. Press the relevant key to enter the intended symbol, e.g. on page one, 7 corresponds to “@”.
mode
T9® Text Input is a feature enabling you to more easily use SMS mes- saging. The T9 feature allows you to compose text messages with only one keypress per letter. See p. 46.
mode
In this mode you can enter only digits.
Facts & Tips
•Please observe that changing the menu language of your phone will not affect the keypad language and the T9 language as they are totally independ- ent. Changing the keypad and T9 lan- guage is done manually in the Message Setup menu.
•When you change the menu lan- guage of your phone, it is advisable to change the keypad language accord- ingly.