Philips E-GSM 1800 - Manual (Page 15)

Text Entry 9
3. Text Entry
Text can be entered in editing screens in two different
ways: by using T9
® Predictive Text Input or basic text
input. The techniques for using these two methods
are discussed below.
T9 ® text input
T9 ® Predictive Text Input is an
intelligent editing mode for entering text
on a mobile phone. It allows you to enter
text more quickly by anticipating the
word you want to enter based on the
keys you have pushed. You press once on the key
corresponding to each letter needed to spell a word
and T9
® suggests a word based on your keystrokes. If
several words are available, the first word in the list is
displayed and highlighted. Press
+/- or L to
browse the list and press OK to insert the word.
How to use it?
Letters and symbols represented by each key are as
follows:
Example: how to enter the word "home":
1. Press 4 6 6 3. The screen displays
the first word of a list: Good .
2. Press +or Lto scroll and select Home .
3. Press , or > to confirm selection of the
word Home .
Dictionary
If the word you want to enter is not in the T9 ®
dictionary, you can add it to the database. Press
L 1>2>3 to scroll to the bottom of the list until you
reach the entry represented by a series of highlighted
underscores (_ _ _ _ _).
2 to 9 To key in letters.
L
1>2>3
or +/-
To browse the list of candidate words.
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1
,
Press any of the three keys to insert the
selected word followed by a space.
R Short press to backspace, long press to
clear all text.
0 To shift letter case: Standard, lower or
UPPERCASE letters.
# To view the table of symbols and
punctuation. Then press
L >> or <
and > to browse the 3 available tables.
* To shift mode from T9 ® to basic text
input to numeric.
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