Messaging
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Text entry
To enter text while writing messages, use traditional or predictive text
input. When using traditional text input, press a number key, 1 to 9,
repeatedly until the character you want is displayed. In predictive text
input you can enter a letter with a single keypress.
When you write text, appears at the top left of the display,
indicating predictive text input, and is displayed, indicating
traditional text input. , , or is displayed next to the text
input indicator, indicating the character case. To change the character
case, press #. indicates number mode. To change from the letter to
number mode, press and hold #, and select Number mode.
Settings
To set the writing language to a language other than that selected,
select Options > Writing language. Predictive text input is only
available for the languages on the list.
To set the predictive text input option, select Options > Prediction on ,
or to set traditional text input option, select Options > Prediction off.
To quickly set predictive text input on or off when writing text, press #
twice, or select and hold Options.
Predictive text input
Predictive text input allows you to write text quickly by using the phone
keypad and a built-in dictionary.
1. Start writing a word, using the keys, 2 to 9, and press each key only
once for one letter. The word changes after each keystroke.
2. When you finish writing the word and it is correct, press 0.
3. If a displayed word is not correct, press * repeatedly, or select
Options > Matches. When the word that you want is displayed,
select Use.
4. If the ? character is displayed after the word, the word you intended
to write is not in the dictionary. To add the word to the dictionary,
select Spell. The phone displays the entered letters. Enter the word
(traditional text input is used), and select Save.
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