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5 Text entry
Your phone is specifically designed for easy and comfortable text writing. The easiest way
to write is using your thumbs to type on the messaging keyboard. You can start writing a
message using the keyboard, close the keyboard and continue writing with either traditional
or predictive text input. Predictive text input is not available when the keyboard is open.
• WRITE TEXT WITH THE KEYBOARD OPEN
When the keyboard is open, you can start to write a message in several ways.
•Select Menu > Messages > Text messages > Create message.
• Move the joystick to the left in the standby mode.
• Press any of the letter keys in the standby mode (except the pause character p or the
waiting character w) to open Notes.
AVAILABLE FUNCTIONS
The following functions are available when writing text with the keyboard open:
• To insert a number, press a number key. (If you pressing a number key in the standby
mode, it initiates a normal call procedure.)
• To switch between the lower and upper case, indicated by , or on
the top left of the display, or to key in symbols, press the Shift keys on the keyboard.
You can either press a Shift key and the desired character consecutively, or press and
hold a Shift key and the desired letter key at the same time.
• To write in upper case only, press one of the Shift keys twice.
• To delete characters from the display, press the Backspace key or select Clear. Press the
Backspace key briefly to clear one character at a time. Use a longer keypress to delete
characters more quickly.
• To add a space, press one of the Space keys at the bottom of the keyboard.
• To create a line break, press the Enter key.
TYPING ACCENTED CHARACTERS
The characters available depend on the language selected in the Phone language menu. To type
accented characters or symbols that are not printed on the keyboard, do one of the following:
• To access a set of punctuation marks, accented characters, and symbols, press the
Character key. Scroll through the character set by moving the joystick, and select
Insert to enter the selected character.
• To type an accented character that is not included in the list of special characters under
the Character key, such as á, press and hold the Character key and simultaneously
press “a” repeatedly until the desired accented variant of “a” appears on the display.
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