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15
Getting to know your phone
Entering letters
There are two ways of entering letters, for example,
when writing a message or writing a name in
contacts:
• Multitap text input
You press each key as ma
ny times as needed to
show the letter you want.
• T9™ Text Input
The T9 Text Input method uses a built-in dictionary
to recognize the most commonly used word for
each sequence of key presses. This way, you press
each key only once, even
if the letter you want is
not the first letter on the key.
Writing languages
Before you start entering le
tters, you need to select
the languages that you wa
nt to use when writing.
When writing, you can switch to one of your
selected languages by pressing and holding
.
To select writing language
1
}
Settings
}
the
General
tab
}
Language
}
Writing language
.
2 Scroll to each language that you want to use
and mark it.
}
Save
to exit the menu.
To enter letter
s using multitap
text input
1 To enter text, you have
to be in a function
where text input is possible, for example
}
Messaging
}
Write new
}
Text message
.
2 Press the appropriate key,
–
,
or
, repeatedly until
the character you
want appears on the screen. You can see which
characters you can choose in the box in the top
right corner of the screen.
Example:
• To enter an ‘
A’, press
once.
• To enter a ‘
B’, quickly press
twice.
• To shift between capital
and lower-case letters,
press
, then enter the letter.
• You can use the volume bu
ttons as a shortcut to
certain letters. To enter a ‘
B’, press and
hold the
volume button
and press
. To enter
a ‘C’, press and hold the
volume button
and press
.
Multitap input only applies
when Latin characters are
selected as writing language.