Text entry
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Punctuation and special
characters
While at any text entry screen, press
* to display special characters (press
and hold * if predictive text is on).
Press * again to cycle through all
available characters. You can
navigate through the list of special
characters by using the Four-way
scroll key. Once a character is
highlighted, press Use to insert the
character into your message.
■ Predictive text input
Predictive text input allows you to
write messages quickly using your
keypad and the built-in dictionary. It
is much faster than the standard
mode method, because for each
letter, you only press the
corresponding key on your keypad
once.
Activate/deactivate
At any text entry screen, press and
hold Options. Dictionary is turned on
and off, depending on its previous
mode.
OR
1. At any text entry screen, select
Options > Dictionary.
2. Scroll to the language of your
choice, and press Select.
Text entry
The illustration below simulates your
display each time a key is pressed.
For example, to write Nokia with
predictive text on and with the
English dictionary selected, press
each of the following keys once:
6 6 5 4 2
• Press 0 to enter a space, and
begin writing the next word.
• If a displayed word is not correct,
press * to see other matches. To
return to the previous word in the
list of matches, press Previous.
•If ? appears after a word, press
Spell to add the word to the
dictionary.
• Press 1 to insert a period into
your message.
• Press and hold * to display special
characters. Press * again to cycle
through all available characters.
• Press # to switch predictive text
on or off and to use predictive
text in various modes. As you
press # , the following icons (not
the descriptions) appear in the
upper left of the display screen:
Lowercase text:
predictive text is on.
Uppercase text:
predictive text is on.