Sprint Nextel i856 Displaying Your Numbers, Entering Text, Selecting a Text Input Mode, Help

Help

Your phone contains an in-device help program to help you understand complicated or seldom used features. When you access a feature, Help sometimes appears as a menu item or softkey. Select Help and read the text for a quick overview of the feature. For more information, refer to this guide.

Displaying Your Numbers

MyInfo lets you view your phone number, Direct Connect number, and other phone information.

Press / >Tools>MyInfo.

Entering Text

Selecting a Text Input Mode

Your phone provides convenient ways to enter letters, numbers, and symbols whenever you are prompted to enter text (for example, when adding a Contacts entry or when composing text and multimedia messages).

Tochooseatextinputmode:

1.At a screen requiring you to enter text, press / to change the text input mode.

2.Select one of the following options:

Alpha to enter text directly using the keypad.

Word to enter text using a predictive text system that reduces the number of key presses required while entering a word. (See page 16.)

Symbols to enter punctuation and other symbols. (See page 17.)

Numeric to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on the keypad. (See page 17.)

TextInputSettingsallows you to change the settings for text input mode. (See page 16.)

Insert to insert Quick Notes preset messages

(InsertQNotes) or additional multimedia elements such as pictures or audio files into a message. (See page 54.) (You can also access Quick Notes by pressing QNotes [left softkey] when beginning a message.)

Tip	When entering text, press and hold the # to
	change letter capitalization (ABC > Abc > abc).

Phone Basics

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