User's Manual

16 Text or number entry
4 • Text or number entry
Input method
Your mobile phone provides a number of text editing
modes, including Handwriting input, Pinyin input,
English input, Numeric input, Symbol input and
Phone number input (phone number input is
available only under the Contacts menu). You can use
soft key to switch among the first five input
modes when in editing mode. The last input mode is
only valid when adding or editing phone numbers.
Handwriting input
Handwriting input adopts an advanced technique for
word recognition. It enables you to input Chinese,
English, Symbols and other messages conveniently
and quickly. Before you start handwriting input,
confirm the input type and use the stylus pen to tap
"Aa", "123" and "#", etc at the bottom of the screen.
Then start writing on the centre part of the screen
using the stylus pen. Pause once to allow the phone to
automatically select and display the recognized
character into the text area. If the character displayed
in the text area is not your desired character, you can
choose another character from the candidate list to
replace it.
The input types (from left to right) at the bottom of the
screen are Chinese Handwriting, English Handwriting,
Numeric Handwriting, Symbol Handwriting, Space
Input, Line break Input and Back Space.
Space Input
Tap the onscreen space symbol to insert a space after
the cursor.
Line break operation
Tap the onscreen line break symbol to start a new line.
Delete operation
When the editor is not empty, tap the onscreen Back
space symbol with the stylus pen to delete the
character or symbol on the left of the cursor. If there
are no characters on the left of the cursor, then the
character on the right of the cursor will be deleted.
Onscreen keyboard input
Onscreen English keyboard
You can input 26 English letters, 10 numbers and
other symbols under this mode. Tap the letter or
number on the screen and the editor will display the
letter or number you have tapped. Under the English
input mode, you can tap "a->A" on the screen to
switch between capital letter and small letter. The
default mode is capital letter.
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