TOA Electronics A920 manual Entering Text, Selecting a Character Input Mode

Entering Text

Selecting a Character Input Mode

Your Sprint PCS Phone provides convenient ways to enter words, letters, punctuation, and numbers whenever you are prompted to enter text (for example, when adding a Contacts entry or when using Sprint PCS Mail and SMS Text Messaging).

To change the character input mode:

1.When you display a screen where you can enter text, press the right softkey to change the character input mode.

2.Select one of the following options:

■T9(English) to enter text using a predictive text entering system that reduces the number of keys that need to be pressed while entering a word (see page 42).

■Alpha to cycle through the alpha characters associated with the letters on the keypad (see page 43).

■Symbol to enter symbols (see page 44).

■Number to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on the keypad (see page 44).

■Preset Msg to enter preprogrammed messages (see page 44).

■Recent Msg to enter a message from a list of previous messages.

■Emoticons to enter “emoticons” (see page 44).

Tip:	When entering text, press the * (Shift) key to change letter
	capitalization (ABC > Abc > abc).

Phone Basics

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