41Entering TextAt many times when using your phone, you will needto enter text, such as when storing a name in yourPhonebook, creating your personal greeting orscheduling events in your calendar. You can enteralphanumeric characters into your phone using yourphone’s keypad.Your phone has the following text input modes:• T9(English): This mode allows you to enter wordswith only one key press per letter. Each key on akeypad has more than one letter; for example, whenyou press the 5 key once J, K or L displays. T9 modeautomatically compares your key presses to aninternal linguistic database to determine the correctword. T9 mode requires far fewer keystrokes thanthe traditional multi-tap method, Alphabet mode.• Alphabet: This mode allows you to enter letters bypressing the key labeled with the letter you wantrepeatedly until the desired letter appears on thedisplay.• Symbol: This mode allows you to enter specialcharacters.• Number: This mode allows you to enter numbers.40CCaallll FFuunnccttiioonnssThree-Way CallingThis feature enables you to conduct conference callswith two separate people at the same time. The phonerecords each participant into the Outgoing Calls Log.Also, you are billed call time for each outgoing callseparately.Note: Contact your service provider to activate Three-Way Calling.To place a Three-Way call:1. During a conversation, press the key. Thephone places the other person on hold.2. Enter the phone number for the third person, andthen press the key. The phone dials the thirdperson.3. When you are connected to the person, press the 3key and then the key again to begin your three-way call.If one of the callers (not you) hangs up, you andremaining caller stay connected. If you initiated thecall and you hang up first, all three participants aredisconnected.