Motorola i55sr Phone manual Using T9 Text Input, T9 Text Input Entry Modes

Using T9 Text Input

Using T9 Text Input

Your i55sr 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. T9 Text Input matches your keystrokes to words in its linguistic database of approximately 60,000 words and proper names. You may also store additional words you frequently use in your own user database, which is incorporated into the T9 database.

T9 Text Input is available when you are typing information into your Phonebook and Datebook.

T9 Text Input Entry Modes

Four text entry modes are available in T9 Text Input: Alpha, Word, Symbols, and Numeric. When you are using T9 Text Input, an icon in the top right corner of your phone’s display screen (next to the battery strength indicator icon) indicates the T9 Text Input entry mode you are using:

Icon	T9 Entry Mode	Used For...
	Name
w	Alpha	Standard “multi-tap” keypad
		text entry.
#	Word	Entering words and
		punctuation with one key-
		press per character.
!	Symbols	Entering punctuation and
		symbols such as “@” or “?”.
,	Numeric	Entering keypad numbers.

When you are using Phonebook or Datebook, you select your text entry mode from a menu available whenever the phone is displaying a screen that requires you to enter text (for example, the Name: screen or Title: screen).

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