• ABC AND 123 MODES
A status indicator in the upper left corner of your screen indicates
the mode you are in whenever you are entering information into your
phone book, calendar, or text messaging.
The following table contains a list of the characters displayed when
entering text and numbers from your keypad:
Mode
The phone shows
Use for
ABC
sentence or title case
(first letter uppercase)
all uppercase letters
all lowercase letters
Entering contacts, numbers or
addresses in phone book
Entering notes in Calendar
Writing a text message
123
number entry
Entering numbers
Special
characters
special characters list
Entering punctuation or
special characters
Predictive text
in combination with ABC mode indicators Writing SMS text messages or
calendar notes
Key
Characters
Key
Characters
1
.@?!-,&:’1
7
P Q R S 7
2
A B C 2
8
T U V 8
3
D E F 3
9
W X Y Z 9
4
G H I 4
0
Space, 0, return
5
J K L 5
*/+
Special characters menu
6
M N O 6
#
Changes letter case or mode.
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Pressing a key repeatedly cycles you through all of that key options. To enter a letter, press the
appropriate key repeatedly until the desired letter appears. Continue this process until the word
or name is completed.
Note:
If the next letter in the word you are entering is on the same key, wait two to
three seconds for the cursor to advance, and enter the new letter, or press 0 to
advance the cursor.
Important:
Phone language settings may affect the characters associated with the
phone keypad.
For example: to enter the name “Albert,” do the following:
Note:
Default mode is sentence case where the first letter of a name or sentence is
automatically capitalized. Phone book default mode is title case where the first letter
of each word is capitalized.
OTHER OPTIONS
• Delete mistakes—If you make a mistake, press Clear to delete one character to the left.
Press and hold the Clear key to speed up the erasing process.
• Enter a space—When you’ve completed entering a word or name, press 0 to enter a space
before the next word.
• Change letter case—Press # to switch between the various text entry modes or from
uppercase and lowercase letters.
• To start a new line—Press 0 three times.
Enter numbers
Your phone will switch to 123 mode when entering a number into your phone book or any other
purely numeric entry. When in ABC mode, you can insert numbers using any of the following:
• Press and hold the # key for two seconds to switch to 123 mode, and press the desired
number keys. Press and hold # again to return to ABC mode.
• Press and hold the desired number key until the number appears on the display.
• Press the desired key repeatedly until the desired number appears.
Press
Displayed text
2 for A
A
5-5-5 for l
Al
2 for b
Alb
3-3 for e
Albe
7-7-7 for r
Alber
8 for t
Albert
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Text entry
Enter punctuation and other characters
You can enter punctuation, specials characters, and symbols while
writing text messages, entering notes in the organizer, creating
phone book entries, or Internet browsing.
You can add punctuation and special characters by these methods:
• Press 1 repeatedly while in ABC mode to cycle through some of
the most common punctuation marks and special characters.
• Press * to activate the special characters list. A screen appears displaying the available
special characters.
• Use the scroll keys to highlight the desired character, and press Insert.
Important:
Some networks may not support all language-dependent characters.
Special characters in phone numbers
You can enter certain special characters as a part of the phone numbers you save to the phone
book. Press * repeatedly to cycle through the four special characters available when saving a
phone number.
* Sends command strings to the network. Contact your service provider for more information.
+ Links a 1-touch dialing location to the number currently being entered.
p Creates a pause that occurs when the phone dials a number. Numbers entered to the right
of this special character are automatically sent as touch tones after a 2.5-second pause.
w Causes the phone to wait for you to press Send.
• WRITE WITH PREDICTIVE TEXT
Using predictive text input is a quick way to enter text, using a
highly compressed database (or dictionary) of common words that
tries to anticipate the word as you enter it.
Watching predictive text guess a word can be confusing, disregard
the screen until all characters have been entered.
Example: To write “Nokia”:
Press