Using on-screen keyboards
You can tap a text input field to activate the on-screen keyboard. You can switch between
three types of keyboards:
•Mini QWERTY keyboard – keyboard in portrait mode.
•Full QWERTY keyboard – keyboard in landscape mode.
•Alphanumeric keypad – traditional keypad for alphanumeric characters.

Alphanumeric keypad

1
4
8
9
2
10
5
6
7
3
1 Close – tap to accept the text in the input window and close the on-screen keypad view
2Options – tap to open the input options menu to change, for example, the Writing language or view Help
3 Text input indicator – tap to open a pop-up window, in which you can turn on or off predictive text input
mode, change the character case, and switch between letter and number mode
4 Input methods – tap to change to another input method: Mini QWERTY keyboard, Full QWERTY
keyboard or Handwriting
5 Left – tap to move the cursor to the left
6 Right – tap to move the cursor to the right
7 Backspace – tap to delete a letter to the left of the cursor
8 Symbol – tap to open the symbol table
9 Space – tap to enter a space or 0
10 Shift – tap to change the character case, turn on or off predictive text input mode, and switch between the
alphabet modes and number mode
To activate the alphanumeric keypad
1Tap any text input field. For example, select Menu > Messaging > New message
and tap in the area of the screen under the To field.
2A text input window pops up. Tap and select Alphanumeric keypad.
To enter text using predictive text input
1If is not displayed in the text input indicator, tap and select Activate
predictive text.
2Press each key only once, even if the letter you want is not the first letter on the key.
For example, to write the word “Jane”, tap
5
for J,
2
for a,
6
for n and
3
for e. Write the whole word before looking at the suggestions.
3To view more word suggestions, tap the underlined word. Select a word.
4To add a space, tap
0
.
5To add symbols and punctuation marks, tap
*+
.
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