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Section 5: Entering Text
This section describes how to enter words, letters, punctuation
and numbers when you need to enter text.
Virtual QWERTY Keyboard
Your phone uses a virtual QWERTY keyboard for text entry. Use
the keyboard to enter letters, punctuation, numbers, and other
characters into text entry fields or applications. Access the
keyboard by touching any text entry field.
The virtual QWERTY keyboard displays at the bottom of the
screen. By default, when you rotate the phone, the screen
orientation updates to display the keyboard at the bottom of the
screen.
Text Input Methods
Your phone offers three text input methods:
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Swype
: Swype is a new text input method that allows you to enter
words by gliding your finger over the virtual QWERTY keyboard, lifting
your finger between words. You can also enable Word prediction,
which matches your key touches to common words.
•
Samsung Keyboard
: An on-screen QWERTY keypad that can be used
in both portrait and landscape orientation. You can also configure the
Samsung keypad to use the QWERTY Keypad, or a 3x4 Keypad (uses
XT9 predictive text).
•
Android Keyboard
: The Android Keyboard is a virtual QWERTY
keyboard that allows you to enter text by touching keys on the screen.
Android Keyboard includes predictive text, which matches your key
touches to common words so that you can select the word to enter it
into your text.
Changing the Input Method
When entering text, you can select the text input method.
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Touch and hold on a text input field, then select an input
method:
•Swype
• Samsung keypad
• Android keyboard