Sony F500i - Manual (Page 13)

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Getting to know your phone
To enter letters using T9 Text Input
1 } Messages } Write new } Text message .
2 For example, if you want to write the word
“Jane”,
press , , , .
3 If the word shown is the one you want, press
to accept and add a space. To accept a
word without adding a space, press . If the
word shown is not the one you want, press
or repeatedly to view alternative words.
4 Continue writing your message. To enter a full
stop or other punctuation marks, press
and then or repeatedly. Accept by
pressing .
To add words to the T9 dictionary
1 While entering letters } More } Spell word .
2 Edit the word by using multitap input. Navigate
between the letters with
and . To delete
a character, press . To delete the entire
word, press and hold .
3 When you have edited the word } Insert . The
word is added to the T9 dictionary. Next time
you enter this word using T9, it will appear as
one of the alternative words.
To select another writing method
Before, or while entering letters, press and hold
to select another writing method.
Options when entering letters
} More to view a list of options. The list may contain
some or all of the following:
•
Add symbol – symbols and punctuation marks
such as ? and , are shown. Move between the
symbols by using , , and .
• Add item – pictures, melodies and sounds.
• Spell word – for T9 Text Input only. Edit the
suggested word by using multitap text input.
• Text format – change style, size and alignment.
• Writing language – a list of available languages is
shown.
• Writing method – a list of methods available for
the current language is shown.
• Dictionary (T9) – turn T9 text input on or off.
• Word suggestions – select to view, or not, word
suggestions when writing a word.
• My words – manage the words that you have
added to the dictionary.
• National chars. – turn off language-specific
characters to save space. This option appears
only for some writing languages.