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Section 2A: Your Phone – The Basics 35
Entering Text
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Your phone provides convenient ways to enter words, letters,
punctuation, and numbers whenever you are prompted to
enter text (for example, when adding a Contacts entry or
when using Sprint Mail and SMS Text Messaging).
To change the character input mode:
1. When you display a screen where you can enter text,
press Mode(right softkey) to change the character input
mode.
2. Select one of the following options:
Ⅲ
Abc to cycle through the alpha characters associated
with the letters on the keypad (see page 38).
Ⅲ
T9Wordto enter text using a predictive text entering
system that reduces the amount of keys that need to
be pressed while entering a word (see page 36).
Ⅲ
123 to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on
the keypad (see page 38).
Ⅲ
Symbolsto enter symbols (see page 38).
Ⅲ
Smileysto enter “emoticons”(see page 38).
Ⅲ
PresetMessages to enter preprogrammed messages
(see page 39).
Ⅲ
PresetSuffix to enter preset suffix such as
http://www., https://www., www., .com, .net , .org,
.edu, .wap, //, ","", (), {}, [], <>, and << >>.
Tip: When entering text, press the
*
(Shift) key to change letter
capitalization (Abc > ABC > abc).
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