42Entering textThe phone allows you to enter characters formessages and names in Chinese and English. Toenter Chinese text, the phone provides severalwidely used pronunciation based (Pinyin) andcharacter shape based (Stroke) input methods tomeet the preferences of different users, allowing forgreater convenience and ease of use.You can also enter any combination of Chinesecharacters, alphabets, numbers, and specialsymbols including punctuation marks.The following text input modes are available onyour phone:• Chinese Pinyin mode• Chinese simplified stroke mode• Quick English mode (T9 mode)*• English mode• Chinese traditional stroke mode• Number mode• Symbolic modeNote: Each input mode can be used when writing onthe touch pad. For more information about this,see page 11.Directions for using each of the text input modesappear later in this section.* is a registered Trademark of Tegic Communications,Inc. and is licensed under U.S. Patent 5,818,437/5,953,541/6,011,554.
