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30 Section 2A: Your wireless Phone – The Basics
Entering Text
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Your wireless 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 your wireless Mail and
SMS Text Messaging).
To change the character input mode:
1. When you display a screen where you can enter text,
select Mode (right softkey).
2. Select one of the following options:
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Abc to cycle through the alpha characters associated
with the letters on the keypad (see page 33).
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T9Word 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 31).
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123 to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on
the keypad (see page 34).
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Symbolsto enter symbols (see page 34).
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Smileysto enter “emoticons”(see page 34).
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Preset Msg to enter pre-programmed messages (see
page 34).
Tip:
When entering text, press the
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(Shift) key to change letter
capitalization (Abc > ABC > abc).
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