Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions One Touch 531 - Manual (Page 23)

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essages
To enter text with T9:
Tips and Operation
Example
To enter card in the display:
• Press
and select Mes-
sages.
• Select Write new .
• Select Text .
• Press , appears.
• Press , a appears.
• Press , ca appears.
• Press , car appears.
• Press , case appears.
If the displayed word is not the
one you want, press
as many
times as necessary to view card.
• Press
to exit from this
example and return to the
standby display.
Creating Text models
You can create a set of 10 messages to be
used as models. These texts can be of up
to 50 characters, which allows adding text
when you want to use them. These tem-
plates are stored in the mobile memory.
To create text models,
Editing a text model
Sending a new SMS messa-
ge
You can send message texts (up to 918
characters). The standard size for an SMS
is 160 characters (your service provider
charges you according to the number of
SMS used to send your message). The
icon (1 = number of SMS used - it is up-
dated while writing your message and
shows the number of SMS needed to send
your message) is displayed on the screen
left corner.
Press the key bearing the
required letter once only (the
requested character may not
be displayed first).
The active word changes as
you type. Type all the word
characters up to the end of the
word.
If the right word is not dis-
played when all the characters
are entered press
until you
get the required word.
If the requested word does not
belong to the displayed ones,
press
to swap to the multi-
tap method and type the cor-
rect letters in.
Use
or to locate the cur-
sor in the text to insert or
delete characters.
Key Action
Long
press Numbers
Shift - upper/lower
case
Clear Clear or backspace
Space
Another matching
word
Smart punctuation
Swap between T9 and
Multitap method
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Press . Select Messages.
Select Text models
.
Choose any blank template
([...]) and press OK
.
Enter the template text and
press OK
.
Press . Select Messages.
Select Text models
.
Select the text model to be
modified and press OK
.
Edit the text and press OK .
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