User's Manual Part 1

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.
Chinese input
This mobile phone has different input methods for entering Chinese characters:
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Stroke input
•
Pinyin input
You can use these methods, for example, to enter Chinese names and Chinese short
messages.
General instructions
Your phone has a function to speed up the entry of Chinese characters. Whenever you
enter a stroke or a Pinyin letter, a candidate row of the most frequently used characters
containing that stroke or relating to that letter appears at the bottom of the screen. Pressing
to present another candidate row. Continue pressing until the character you want is
displayed. Alternatively, you can enter the next stroke or Pinyin letter, and a new set of
characters will immediately be displayed in the candidate row. To go back to the previous
row, press . To select a character in the candidate row, press the navigation key or press
and hold the key corresponding to the number above the character you want to enter.
Stroke input
A Chinese character is built up of strokes which are grouped into five stroke categories.
Each category is represented on the keypad by one of the keys - . The Wild Card
key , is used when you are not sure of which stroke to use.
Components
Using components is a fast method for entering complex characters. After entering the first
two strokes of the desired character, the component and character candidates that started
with that stroke are displayed in the candidate row.
The smaller candidates surrounded by dotted frames are components, and the bigger candidates
without dotted frames are characters.
For example, to enter “ 信息”
1
Enter “ ”, “ ” and “ ”.
2
Move the cursor to “信”, press the centre selection key.
3
Move the cursor to “息”, press the centre selection key again to select “ 息”.
Example of using the wild card key
The wild card key
, is used to supplement unclear strokes in entering characters. If you
want to enter “互”, but you only know that “ 一” is the first and the last stroke of the character
and that the total number of strokes is four, enter
, , , . The character is
displayed in the candidate row.
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