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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 80 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 J
Press O
Press H
Press N
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