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34 Section 2A: Your Sprint PCS Phone – The Basics
Entering Text
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Your Sprint PCS 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,
select Mode(right softkey).
2. Select one of the following options:
Ⅲ
Abcto cycle through the alpha characters associated
with the letters on the keypad (see page37).
Ⅲ
T9Wordto 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 35).
Ⅲ
123to 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
PresetMessagesto enter pre-programmed messages
(see page38).
Tip:When entering text, press the
*
(Shift) key to change letter
capitalization (Abc > ABC > abc).