Sony Z800i - Manual (Page 14)

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14
Getting to know your phone
Using keypad shortcuts
Enter the menus by pressing and then enter
the number of the menu to which you want to go.
For example, to reach the fifth menu item, press
. To reach the tenth, eleventh and twelfth
menu items, press , and
respectively. To go back to standby, press and
hold
.
Using navigation key shortcuts
In standby, press to go to a shortcuts menu,
or , or to go directly to a function.
To edit a navigation key shortcut
In standby, press } Edit shortcuts and select
which shortcut you want to edit } Edit .
Entering letters
There are two ways of entering letters, for example,
when writing a message or writing a name in the
phonebook:
• Multitap text input
You press each key as many times as needed
to show the letter you want.
• T9™ Text Input
The T9 Text Input method uses a built-in
dictionary to recognize the most commonly used
word for each sequence of key presses. This way,
you press each key only once, even if the letter you
want is not the first letter on the key.
Writing languages
Before you start entering letters, you need to select
the languages that you want to use when writing.
When writing, you can switch to one of your
selected languages by pressing and holding .
To select writing language
1 } Settings } the General tab } Language
} Writing language .
2 Scroll to each language that you want
to use and mark it.
} Save to exit the menu.
To enter letters using multitap text
input
1 To enter text, you have to be in a function
where text input is possible, for example
} Messaging } Write new } Text message .
2 Press the appropriate key, – ,
or , repeatedly until the character you
want appears on the screen. You can see which
characters you can choose in the box in the top
right corner of the screen.