Nokia 8290 manual Entering letters and numbers, Standard text input, ABC mode

Entering letters and numbers

6. Entering letters and numbers

You can enter letters and numbers into your phone for a person’s name and phone number, writing a text message, and so on. There are two ways to do this:

•Standard text input, for making entries in the phone book, entering calendar notes, and renaming caller groups

•Predictive text input, for writing text messages and picture messages. See “Using predictive text input” on page 75 for more information

•Standard text input

ABC mode

This is the default mode. The ABC icon appears as visual confirmation.

1Find the key that has the letter you want to enter.

2Press it as many times as needed for the letter to appear on the screen.

For example, to enter the name John:

Press	J
Press	O
Press	H
Press	N

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