Nokia 8600 Luna - Manual (Page 58)

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1. Start writing a word using the 2 to 9 keys. Press each key only once for one letter.
The entered letters are displayed underlined.
The phone starts to predict the word you are writing. After you enter a few letters, and if
these entered letters are not a word, the phone tries to predict longer words. Only the
entered letters are displayed underlined.
To insert a special character, press and hold *, or select Options > Insert symbol. Scroll to
a character, and select Insert.
To write compounds words, enter the first part of the word; to confirm it, press the
navigation key right. Write the next part of the word and confirm the word.
To enter a full stop, press 1.
2. When you finish writing the word and it is correct, to confirm it, press 0 to add space.
If the word is not correct, press * repeatedly, or select Options > Matches. When the
word that you want appears, select the word.
If the ? character is displayed after the word, the word you intended to write is not in the
dictionary. To add the word to the dictionary, select Spell. Complete the word
(traditional text input is used), and select Save.
■ Traditional text input
To set traditional text input on, from the Message: field select Options > Prediction off.
Press a number key, 1 to 9, repeatedly until the desired character appears. Not all characters
available under a number key are printed on the key. The characters available depend on the
selected writing language.
If the next letter you want is located on the same key as the present one, wait until the
cursor appears, or briefly press any of the scroll keys and enter the letter.
The most common punctuation marks and special characters are available under the 1 key.
For more characters, press *.
7. Messaging
You can read, write, send, and save text, multimedia, e-mail, audio, and flash
messages and postcards. All messages are organized into folders.
■ Text messages (SMS)
With the short message service (SMS) you can send and receive text messages, and receive
messages that can contain pictures (network service).
Before you can send any text or SMS e-mail message, you must save your message center
number. See "Message settings," p. 36.