User's Manual

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Before Using the Terminal
Enter characters using the software keyboard
which appears when you tap the character
input box in a mail, phonebook, etc.
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Information
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To hide software keyboard, tap displayed at
the lower left of the screen.
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Touch and hold a text on the character entry screen
to display the enlarged text.
Character input method for the terminal is
set to "Xperia
™
Japanese keyboard" by
default when the language is set to
日本語
(Japanese). Details on using Xperia Japanese
keyboard are explained in "POBox Plus
使い方
ガイド
(Online help)".
1
From the character entry screen,
tap in the quick tool bar.
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Details of the quick tool bar (P.67)
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If the quick tool bar is not displayed, tap
(when is not displayed, tap
/ to switch the character
mode to "Kana").
2
[Online help].
1
From the Home screen,
u
[Settings].
2
[Language & input]
u
[Current
Keyboard]
3
[Xperia
™
Japanese keyboard]/
[International keyboard (Xperia
™
keyboard)].
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Information
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When the language is set to English, the default
input method is set to "International keyboard". To
use the Japanese keyboard, tap [Xperia
™
Japanese
keyboard] in Step 3. In this manual, explanations are
given only for "Xperia
™
Japanese keyboard".
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You can also select a keyboard by tapping
displayed at the lower right of the screen when
entering characters.
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To select or deselect a keyboard to use, tap [CHOOSE
KEYBOARDS] in Step 3.
For Xperia
™
Japanese keyboard, the
following software keyboard can be used.
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Character input method (P.67)
Character entry
POBox Plus
日本語入力 使い方ガイ
ド
(Xperia™ Japanese keyboard
Online help)
Selecting a keyboard
Software keyboard
Keypad Keyboard with the same key
arrangement as a mobile phone.
Repeatedly tap a key to select a
character (multi-tap input). Flick
input is also available.