W r i t e t e x t
Write text
Traditional and predictive text input
When you write text, 
on the display indicates
predictive text input and 
traditional text input. To set the predictive text input on or off, press # repeatedly, or press *, and select Activate predictive text or Predictive text > Off.
, 
, 
or 
next to the text input indicator indicates the character case or number mode. To change the character case, or to change between letter and number mode, press # repeatedly.
To change the writing language of your device, select 
> Settings > Phone sett. > General > Personalisation > Language > Writing language. The writing language affects the characters available when writing text and the predictive text dictionary used. Not all characters available under a number key are printed on the key.
Write with traditional text input
Press a number key, 2 to 9, repeatedly until the desired character appears. Press the 1 key for the most common punctuation marks and special characters.
If the next letter you want is on the same key as the present one, wait until the cursor appears (or scroll forward to end the
Write with predictive text input
1Press a number key,
2When you have finished the word and it is correct, to confirm it, scroll forward or insert a space.
If the word is not correct, to view the matching words the dictionary has found one by one, press * repeatedly. If the ? character is shown after the word, the word you intended to write is not in the dictionary. To add a word to the dictionary, select Spell. Enter the word (up to 32 letters), and select OK. The word is added to the dictionary. When the dictionary becomes full, a new word replaces the oldest added word.
Common functions in traditional and predictive text input
To insert a number, press and hold the number key.
To enter punctuation marks and special characters, press and hold *.
