26 Copyright © Nokia 20036 Writing textYour phone is specially designed for easy and comfortable text writing. The easiestway is to write with your thumbs using the messaging keyboard. You can, forexample, start writing a message with the keyboard, close the flip and continuewriting the same text using either traditional or predictive text input.Note: Predictive text input is not available when the flip is open.• THE MESSAGING KEYBOARDThere are three ways to use the keyboard. You can start writing a text message intwo ways when the flip is open.• Select Menu > Messages > Text messages > Create message. See “Writingand sending text messages” on page 31.• Press a to the left to activate text messaging.• Press any letter key to activate Notepad.The following keys are also available while writing text:• To insert a number, press a number key.Tip: You can still make a call when the flip is open. Use the numberkeys to enter the phone number, then press e.• To switch between lower case, upper case, or all capital letters, press one ofthe shift keys j or . Icons ( , or ) in the top left of thedisplay indicate which mode you have selected. You can either press the shiftkey and the desired character consecutively or press and hold both the shiftand the desired letter key at the same time. To write in upper case only, pressj or twice.• To delete characters, press h or Clear. Press and hold h or Clear to deleteall characters.• To add a space, press one of the space keys (g or ) at the bottom ofthe keyboard.• To start a new text line, press i.Accented charactersThe characters available depend on the language selected in the Language menu.See “Language” on page 60. Also, some accented characters or symbols are notshown on the keyboard.
