Samsung SPH-a500 Series manual Alphabetical text entry, Entering numbers, Symbol entry

Alphabetical text entry

Alphabetical text entry characters may be entered in ABC mode, by pressing the corresponding key to the letter you want to enter.

Press the same key repeatedly to change between the characters represented

by each key. To change capitalization formats while entering text, press .

Entering numbers

This mode enables you to enter numbers into a text message.

Symbol entry

Symbol mode enables you to enter symbols into a text message. Press to display the options, then press the navigation key up/down to select the symbol option. When displayed, use the navigation key to manipulate the symbols.

When in Symbol input mode, press the key shown on the display under the required symbol.

T9® English text entry

T9 English, or T9 for text on 9 keys, requires only one key press per letter, and recognizes the most commonly used word of a number sequence.

For example, to enter the word hello, you can spell out the word by pressing only five keys, 4-3-5-5-6. T9 Text Input recognizes the most commonly used word for that number sequence is hello. If two or more words share the same number sequence, T9 provides the most commonly used word, with the ability

to navigate to the next most commonly used word by pressing .

Press repeatedly to display all of the available words that T9 knows. When the word you need displays, continue to enter text in the same way, or change to another text or character entry mode.

Note: To type words not found in the T9 mode, change the text input mode to ABC mode. You can include numbers between letters without exiting the T9 input mode by pressing and holding the desired number key.

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