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Entering text

You can use multitap text input or Quick text input to enter text. The Quick text input method uses a dictionary application in your phone.

To change the writing language

To change the text input method

  • When you enter text, press and hold down .

To shift between upper- and lower-case letters or numbers

  • When you enter text, press .

To enter numbers

  1. When you enter text, press repeatedly until appears at the top of the screen.
  2. To enter a number, press – .

To enter a number from text input mode, you can press and hold down – .

To enter punctuation marks and symbols

  1. When you enter text, press briefly.
  2. Scroll to a symbol and select Insert.

When you enter Chinese, you can insert full-size symbols such as 。 or 《. To open the full-size symbol table, press and select Full.

To select from the most commonly used punctuation marks, you can also press .

To enter text using Quick text input

  1. Select, for example, Menu > Messaging > Write new > Message.
  2. If is not displayed, press and hold down to change to Quick text input.
  3. Press each key only once, even if the letter you want is not the first letter on the key. For example, to write the word “Jane”, press , , , . Write the whole word before looking at the suggestions.
  4. To view word suggestions, press or press the navigation key downwards.
  5. Press to accept a suggestion and add a space.

To enter text using the multitap method

  1. Select, for example, Menu > Messaging > Write new > Message.
  2. If is displayed, press and hold down to change to multitap text input.
  3. Press – repeatedly until the desired letter appears.
  4. Press to add a space.

Multitap input only applies when Latin characters are selected as input language.

To add words to the phone dictionary

  1. When you enter text using Quick text input, select Options > Spell word.
  2. Write the word using multitap input and select Save.