Samsung SPH-M500BKMEID - Manual (Page 64)

40 Section 2A: Phone Basics
Entering Text
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Your phone provides convenient ways to enter words, letters, punctuation,
and numbers whenever you are prompted to enter text (for example, when
adding a Contacts entry or when using email and SMS Text Messaging).
To change the character input mode:
1. When you display a screen where you can enter text, press the right
softkey to change the character input mode.
2. Select one of the following options:
Ⅲ VoiceMode to enter text by speaking into your phone. Speech
is converted to text and displayed on screen (see page 124).
Ⅲ T9(English) to enter text using a predictive text entering
system that reduces the number of keys that need to be
pressed while entering a word (see page 41).
Ⅲ Alpha to cycle through the alpha characters associated with
the letters on the keypad (see page 42).
Ⅲ Symbol to enter symbols (see page 43).
Ⅲ Number to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on the
keypad (see page 43).
Ⅲ Preset Msg to enter preprogrammed messages (see page 43).
Ⅲ Recent Msg to enter a message from a list of previous
messages.
Ⅲ Emoticons to enter “emoticons” (see page 43).
Tip: When entering text, press the * (Shift) key to change letter capitalization
( Abc > ABC > abc ).
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