User Manual

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Entering letters and numbers

6. Entering letters and

numbers

You can enter letters and numbers into your phone for a person’s name

and phone number, writing a text message, and so on. There are two ways

to do this:

• standard text input, for making entries in the phone book, entering

calendar notes, and renaming caller groups.

• predictive text input, for writing text messages and picture messages.

See “Using predictive text input” on page 78 for more information.

• Standard text input

ABC mode

This is the default mode. The ABC icon

appears as visual confirmation.

1 Find the key that is below the letter

you want to enter.

2 Press it as many times as needed for

the letter to appear on the screen.

For example, to enter the name John:

Press

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