Siemens GSM 900 - Manual (Page 43)

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Text Messaging
Text Entry Tips
When entering text for address book
listings, SIM phone book entries, e-
mails, SMS messages
or for any other application,
please keep in mind the following
helpful hints:
Press
*
before entering text to toggle
between UPPERCASE and lowercase
letters. Press twice to toggle between
letters and digits.
Press
1
to end a word and add a
blank space.
Press
0
to end a word and add a period.
It also acts as a wildcard character for an
apostrophe or hyphen in a word. For
example, §Provider.s§ = Provider’s.
Press „ to move the cursor to the right.
Ends a word.
Press
#
to temporarily deactivate T9.
Press once again to reactivate T9.
Special characters
Press the key repeatedly until the letter is
displayed. To write special characters after
numbers (for example, 5£), press
*
first
to switch to letter mode.
1
Blank 1 € £ $ ¥ ¤
0 . , ? ! 0 + - : ¿
¡ “ ’ ; _
*
* / ( ) < = > % ~
# # @ \ & § Γ ∆ Θ Λ
Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω
T9
®
Text Input
T9 Text Input determines likely word
matches from individual key entries
by making comparisons with an
extensive dictionary.
Select T9 text input
To select T9 text input for message
composition:
§OK§ Select soft key to open
text options menu
while in message
composition screen.
…
Scroll to select T9 input ,
then select T9 preferred to
set T9 as default. (You
may also select the
language you wish to
use for composition by
selecting
T9 language and
scrolling to the language.)
-
Press to return to
message composition.
Enter text using T9
Press the keys once where the
relevant letters are located. For
example, to enter the word “hotel”:
4 6 8 3 5
:
hotel
T9 even converts language-specific
special characters (such as д, а).
Simply compose the message using
the respective standard character,
for example,
A instead of Ä .
If the word that T9 suggest is not
what you intended, see “T9 word
suggestions,” page 39.