34 2A. Phone Basics From a text entry screen, use the keyboard to enterdifferent character types. Select one of thefollowing character types: Letters to enter the alphabetic charactersassociated with each key. (See page 34.) Numbers to enter numbers by pressing thenumbers on the keyboard. (See page 35.) Symbols to enter symbols and “emoticons.” (Seepage 36.) Smiley’s to enter “emoticons.” (See page 36.) My Text to enter preprogrammed messages.(See page 36.)The keyboard provides dual-use keys labeled withalphabetic characters on the lower half and numbersand symbols on the upper half. Press the keycorresponding to the character you want to enter.Entering CharactersEntering Uppercase and Lowercase Letters1. Press to make the next character uppercase.Characters revert back to lowercase after the nextcharacter is typed.2. Press the corresponding text keys. For example, to enter the word “Bill” in the middleof a sentence, type the keyboard sequencebelow. If you make a mistake, press to erasea single character. Press and hold to erase all previously enteredtext.Space: Inserts an empty space.OK/Enter: Moves the insertion point to thenext line in a message.Back: Deletes the previous character,similar to the backspace key on acomputer keyboard.Note These procedures assume Predictive Text is disabled.See “Predictive Text” on page 31.Note The default mode is ‘Abc’ so if entering text at thebeginning of a sentence it defaults to initialuppercase.Sprint M560.book Page 34 Tuesday, March 2, 2010 3:37 PM
