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38	Text Messaging
Text Entry Tips	T9® Text Input

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.

Press 1to end a word and add a blank space.

Press 0to end a word and add a period. It also acts as a wildcard character for an apostrophe or hyphen in a word. For example, §Provider.s§ = Provider’s.

Press „ to move the cursor to the right. Ends a word.

Press #to temporarily deactivate T9. 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 *first to switch to letter mode.

1	Blank 1		€	£	$	¥	¤
0	.	,	?	!	0	+	- : ¿

¡ “ ’ ; _

** / ( ) < = > % ~

# #	@ \	& § Γ ∆ Θ Λ
Ξ	Π Σ	Φ Ψ Ω

T9 Text Input determines likely word matches from individual key entries by making comparisons with an extensive dictionary.

Select T9 text input

To select T9 text input for message composition:

§OK§ Select soft key to open text options menu while in message composition screen.

… Scroll to select T9 input, then select T9 preferred to

set T9 as default. (You may also select the language you wish to

use for composition by selecting T9 language and scrolling to the language.)

- Press to return to message composition.

Enter text using T9

Press the keys once where the relevant letters are located. For

example, to enter the word “hotel”:

46835:

hotel

T9 even converts language-specific special characters (such as ä, à). Simply compose the message using the respective standard character, for example, A instead of Ä.

If the word that T9 suggest is not what you intended, see “T9 word suggestions,” page 39.