LG Electronics KM501 manual Messaging, Sending a message, Entering text

Messaging

Messaging

Your KM501 combines Text messages, Multimedia messages, Bluetooth messages and Email into one intuitive and easy to use

menu. Simply Press or and select

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7Enter the phone number or select Options and choose Contacts to open your contacts list.

You can add multiple contacts.

8Select Options and choose Send or just press .

The Basics

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Sending a message

The quick way to begin sending a Text message is to press from the standby screen and go straight to step 4 below. Otherwise:

1Press or , select and then New message.

2Choose to send Text, Multimedia or Bluetooth.

3A new message will open.

4Enter your message using T9 predictive mode or Abc manual mode.

See Entering text to see how to switch between the different text entry modes.

5Select Options and choose Insert to add a symbol, image, animation, sound, text template, contact or business card.

6Select Options and choose Send to or just press .

LG KM501 User Guide

Entering text

There are two ways to enter text:

T9 predictive and Abc manual.

To turn on T9 predictive text, begin a new message, choose Options, select T9 languages and choose T9 on. With T9 on, you can switch between T9 predictive, Abc

manual and numbers by pressing .

T9 predictive

T9 mode uses a built-in dictionary to recognise words you are rewriting based on the key sequences you press. Simply press the number key associated with the letter you want to enter, and the dictionary will recognise the word as you type. For example, press 8, 3, 5, 3, 7, 4, 6, 6, 3 to write ‘telephone’.

If the word you want doesn’t appear, choose Options and select New T9 word. Enter the word using Abc manual mode and your word or name will be added to the dictionary.