LG Electronics PDA manual XT9 Keypad, + XT9 mode, + ABC mode

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XT9 Keypad

With XT9 keypad, you can enter text by tapping keys displayed on the screen. This is the most common way to enter text with word prediction function in 20 Qwerty of portrait screen.

v XT9 Keypad is available when text entry is possible.

v Enter letters by tapping the keys labelled with the required letters.

v There are four input modes and you can change by tapping Fn, T9/123 and abc/123. You can turn on and off XT9 prediction function by tapping Fn and T9/123 or abc/123 successively. If you tap just T9/123 or abc/123, you can enter 123 mode. If you tap just Fn, you can enter symbol mode.

+XT9 mode

If you turn on XT9 mode by tapping Fn and T9/123 successively, you can enter words with only one keystroke per letter. The XT9 mode automatically compares your keystrokes with an internal dictionary to determine the correct word, thus requiring far fewer keystrokes than the traditional multitap mode.

This is sometimes known as predictive text. This feature is supported only in portrait screen.

+ ABC mode

If you turn off XT9 mode by tapping Fn and abc/123 successively, you can enter letters by tapping the key labeled with the required letter once or twice until the correct letter is displayed. Tap once for the first letters and twice for the second letters. This mode is known as multitap mode.

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