Samsung SGH-T208 - Manual (Page 27)

Entering Text
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2. The phone displays your strokes in the Key
Stroke Area and offers character choices in the
Character Selection Map. As you enter strokes,
notice that the choices in the Character
Selection Map change. To scroll through choices
in the Character Selection Map, press the
key. To move back, press the key.
3. When the character you are typing appears in
the Character Selection Map, you may select it
without finishing the stroke sequence for the
character. Characters displayed in the Character
Selection Map correspond to the keys 7 to on
the keypad. To select a character from the
Character Selection Map and add it to your
message, press the corresponding key (7 to ).
Note: If you are uncertain of the order of one or more
strokes, press the 6 key in place of each
questionable stroke. Continue entering strokes
until the character is displayed in the Character
Selection Map or until you finish the character.
Inserting a Space
To insert a space between characters, press the
key when the cursor blinks in the Text Area.
Scrolling
To move the cursor to the left or to the right
through your text message, press the or key.
Clearing Strokes and Characters
Press the C key one or more times to remove
strokes to the left. When the Key Stroke Area is
empty, pressing the C key removes characters from
the Text Area.
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Rapid Character Entry
Rapid character entry is easy in any mode, using
the Character Selection Map. As you enter
characters, your phone predicts the next character
you might want and presents choices in the
Character Selection Map area. When a desired
character appears, you may select it as described in
Step 3 on page 50.
In most cases, you will see the desired character in
the Character Selection Map area before you have
entered all of the strokes to build it.
For example, try typing the twelve stroke character
pair “
” using the following keystrokes; 2, 8,
and 7. Even though “ ” is a twelve stroke
character pair, your phone enables you to type it in
only three key presses!
Using the Quick English Mode
This mode allows you to enter English words with
only one key press per letter. Each key on a keypad
has more than one letter - a single press on the 5
key could be J, K, or L. The Quick English mode
automatically compares your key presses to an
internal linguistic database to determine the correct
word.
The mode requires far fewer keystrokes than the
traditional multi-tap method, English mode.
1. Press keys on the phone just once per desired
letter. For example, to enter HELLO, press ,
, , and .
The word that you are typing appears on the
display. It may change with each key that you
press.