Cell Phone Users Guide

Using T9® Text Input

Shift: Press and hold # until you hear a beep to make the next letter

uppercase. The text entry mode indicator will change to reflect the

current case. For example, when in lowercase the text entry mode will

appear as “word” or “alpha.” When in uppercase, the text entry mode

will appear as “WORD” or “ALPHA.”

Punctuation: Press

1 to automatically insert a period, a comma or an

apostrophe. Press

0 to display additional punctuation choices. Press

to accept the punctuation and continue typing.

Entering Text Using T9 Text Input (word mode)

To learn how to enter text using T9 Text Input technology, follow the

instructions below:

From any screen that displays one of the four

text entry modes (word, alpha, SYM,

NUM), press the rightountil “word”

displays.

Type your word by using one key-press per desired letter. The

displayed word may change as you type it. Do not try to correct

the word as you go. Type to the end of the word before editing.

T9 Text Input matches your key strokes to words in its database

and will display the most commonly used matching word.

If the word that appears is not the desired word, press 0 to

change the word on the display to the next most likely word.

Repeat until the desired word appears.

NOTE: If the phone is not able to guess the word you are attempt-

ing to spell, press to erase the current word on

your screen. Press the right

ountil you see “alpha” and

enter the word using the standard multi-tap option (see

Entering Text Using Alpha Mode & Adding Words to the T9

Database). When you return to T9 Text Input (word mode)

the word you just typed is automatically added to the T9

database.

word