Nokia N90 - Manual (Page 66)

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1 To activate predictive text
input, press , and
select Predictive text on .
This activates predictive
text input for all editors in
the phone.
is shown
on the top right of the
display when you write text
using predictive text input.
2 To write the desired word,
press the keys — . Press each key only once
for one letter. For example, to write ‘Nokia’ when the
English dictionary is selected, press
for N, for
o, for k, for i, and for a.
The word suggestion changes after each key press.
3 When you finish writing the word and it is correct, to
confirm it, press , or press to add a space.
If the word is not correct, press repeatedly to view
the matching words the dictionary has found one by
one, or press
, and select Predictive text > Matches .
If the ? character is shown after the word, the word you
intended to write is not in the dictionary. To add a word
to the dictionary, select
Spell , enter the word using
traditional text input, and select OK . The word is added
to the dictionary. When the dictionary becomes full, a
new word replaces the oldest added word.
4 Start writing the next word.
Tip! To set predictive text input on or off, press
twice quickly.
Tips on predictive text input
To erase a character, press . Press and hold to clear
more than one character.
To change between the different character modes, press
. If you press quickly twice, predictive text input is
turned off.
Tip! Predictive text input tries to guess which
commonly used punctuation mark (.,?!‘) is needed.
The order and availability of the punctuation marks
depend on the language of the dictionary.
To insert a number in letter mode, press and hold the
desired number key.
To switch between letter and number mode, press and
hold
.
The most common punctuation marks are available under
. Press and then repeatedly to search for the
desired punctuation mark.
Press and hold to open a list of special characters.
Press repeatedly to view the matching words the
dictionary has found one by one.