Sprint Nextel M500 Cell Phone User Manual


 
44 Section 2A: Your Phone: The Basics
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 PCS Mail and SMS Text Messaging).
To change the character input mode:
1. When you display a screen where you can enter text,
press the right softkey to change the character input
mode.
2. Select one of the following options:
VoiceMode to enter text by speaking into your
phone. Speech is converted to text and displayed on
screen (see page 135).
T9(English) to enter text using a predictive text
entering system that reduces the number of keys
that need to be pressed while entering a word
(see page 45).
Alpha to cycle through the alpha characters
associated with the letters on the keypad
(see page 46).
Symbol to enter symbols (see page 47).
Number to enter numbers by pressing the numbers
on the keypad (see page 47).
Preset Msg to enter preprogrammed messages (see
page 47).
Recent Msg to enter a message from a list of
previous messages.
Emoticons to enter “emoticons” (see page 47).