Asus V55 manual T9 text entry

Using Your Phone

T9™ text entry

T9™ text entry is a predictive text entry method. It uses a built-in dictionary to predict the word you are typing. You can choose the correct word from the suggestions on the bottom of the screen. By reducing the number of keystrokes, the T9™ text entry method helps some users to type messages more quickly.

Whenever you press a key, a list of possible characters or character combinations appears on the screen. To enter text, use the up and down navigation key to find the character combination you want. Press Select and the characters appear in your message text. If you make a mistake, press Clear.

Here is an example of how to enter a word using T9™ text entry.

1. Let’s say that we want to write the word “baby.”

2. First press the 2 key. The choices a, c, b appear on the screen.

3.Scroll to b, then press Select.

4. Press the 2 key again. The first choice of characters is cc. The screen also changes to cc. Do not worry that your first choice has been deleted.

5.Scroll to the pair ba and press Select. The letters ba now appear on the screen.

6. Press the 2 key once again for the third letter b. cab is the first character combination that appears on the screen,

7.Scroll to bab, select, and bab appears on the screen.

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