38 Section 2A: Your Phone: The Basics
Entering Text

Selectinga Character Input Mode

Your phone provides convenientways to enter words, letters,
punctuation, and numbers whenever you are prompted to
enter text(for example, when adding a Contacts entry or
when using SMS TextMessaging).
To change the character inputmode:
1. When you display a screen where you can enter text,
press Mode (rightsoftkey) to change the character
inputmode.
2. Selectone of the following options:
Abcto cycle through the alpha characters
associated with the letters on the keypad.
T9Wordto enter textusing a predictive text
entering system thatreduces the amountof keys
thatneed to be pressed while entering a word.
123to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on
the keypad.
Symbolsto enter symbols.
Smileysto enter “emoticons”.
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