16 Getting to know t he phone
Options when entering letters
} More for options when writin g
amessage.
To enter letters using multitap input
•Press - repeatedly until the
desired character appears.
•Press to shift between capital
and lower-case letters.
•Press and hold - to enter
numbers.
•Press to d elete letters or
numbers.
•Press for the most common
punctuation marks.
•Press to add a space.
T9™ Text Input
The T9 Text Input method uses a
built-in dictionary to recognize the
most commonly used word for each
sequence of key presses. This way,
you press each key only once, even if
the letter you wa nt is not the firs t letter
on the key.
To enter letters using T9 Text Input
1To enter text, you have to be in a
function where text input is possible,
for example, } Messaging } Write
New } Text Message.
2For example, to write the word “Jane”,
press , , , .
3If the word shown is the one you want,
press to accept and add a
space. To accept a word without
adding a space, press . If the word
shown is not the one you want, press
or repeatedly to view alternative
words.
4Continue writing the message. To
enter a punctuation mark, press
and then or repeatedly, press
to accept and add a space.
To add words to the T9 Tex t Input
dictionary
1When entering letters } More
} Spell Word.
2Edit the word by using multitap input.
Use and to move the cursor
between the letters. To delete a
character, press . To delete the
entire word , press and ho ld .
When you have edited the word
} Insert. The word is added to the
T9Text Input dictionary. Next time
you enter this word using T9 Text
Input, it appears in alternative words.
Next word prediction
When writing a message, you can use
T9 Text Input to predict the next word,
if previously used in a sentence.
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