Nextel comm NTN9368-A 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. You may also store additional words you frequently use in your own User Database, which is incorporated into the entire T9 Database.

Entering Characters, Numbers and Symbols

In applications that require text input, such as Hotmail, Two-Way Messaging, and Search, there are four text entry modes available: Word, Alpha, Number, and Symbol.

WORD or Word—activates single-key-press T9 Text Input. ALPHA or Alpha—activates standard keypad text entry called

“multi-tap”.

NUM—allows entry of keypad numbers.

SYM—allows entry of 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 right Puntil you see the desired text entry mode.

T9 Navigation Keys

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

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

Space: Press Q 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 your User Database will begin appearing after words stored in the T9 Database.

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