Nokia 8290 Cell Phone User Manual


 
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Entering letters and numbers
6. Entering letters and
numbers
You can enter letters and numbers into your phone for a person’s name
and phone number, writing a text message, and so on. There are two ways
to do this:
Standard text input, for making entries in the phone book, entering
calendar notes, and renaming caller groups
Predictive text input, for writing text messages and picture messages.
See “Using predictive text input” on page 75 for more information
Standard text input
ABC mode
This is the default mode. The ABC icon
appears as visual confirmation.
1
Find the key that has the letter you
want to enter.
2
Press it as many times as needed for
the letter to appear on the screen.
For example, to enter the name John:
Press
J
Press
O
Press
H
Press
N