41Copyright2004 Nokia. All rights reserved.4. Writing textYour phone is especially designed for easy and comfortable text writing. A goodway is to write with your thumbs using the messaging keyboard. You can, forexample start writing a message using the keyboard, close the flip and continuewriting with either traditional or predictive text input. Note that predictive textinput is not available, when the flip is open. Writing text using the messaging keyboardWhen the flip is open, you can start to write a message or a note in two ways.Press Menu and select Messages, Text messages and Create message, see Writingand sending messages on page 53.Tip: To quickly start writing a message move the joystick to the left instandby mode.Or: Press any of the letter keys in standby mode (except the pause character p orthe waiting character w) to open the notes, see Notes on page 131.The following functions are available when writing text, when the flip is open:• To insert a number, press any of the number keys. Pressing a number key instandby mode initiates a normal call procedure.• To switch between lower and upper case, indicated by , or onthe top left of the display, or to key in symbols, press either or onthe keyboard. You can either press the shift key and the desired character
