Motorola i500plus manual Using T9 Text Input, Entering Characters, Numbers and Symbols

Using T9® Text Input

As you compose email or enter street and web addresses on your Nextel phone, you will need to type words, numbers and symbols. Your Nextel data-capable phone has embedded software, called T9 Text Input, that makes typing on a phone keypad much like typing on a computer keyboard: it eliminates the traditional “multi-tap” method of text entry. As you type, you press only one key per letter. As you type, T9 Text Input matches your keystrokes to words in its linguistic database of approximately 60,000 words and proper names. There’s even a provision to store words you frequently use that aren’t in the T9 database.

Entering Characters, Numbers and Symbols

In applications that require text input, such as email, address book, and search, there are four text entry modes available: Word, Alpha, Number, and Symbol.

Word—activates single-key-press T9 Text Input.

Alpha—for standard keypad text entry called “multi-tap”. Num—for entering keypad numbers.

Sym—for entering punctuation symbols such as “@” or “?”.

The menu option in the lower right corner of the phone screen indicates your current text entry mode. If the option is “word,” you are in T9 Text Input Mode. To change text entry modes, press the rightountil you see the desired text entry mode.

T9 Navigation Keys

Your phone keys assume different functions while in T9 Text Entry Mode just as they did when in Net Mode. The following keys will be instrumental while using T9:

Backspace/Erase: Press lr once to backspace or to erase a single character. Press and hold to erase the entire message.

Space: Press lr once to accept a word and insert a space when entering text.

Next: Press 0 to display more words that match the keystroke sequence you entered. Words that you have added to the T9 database will begin appearing after you press 0 twice.

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