Samsung SGH-E400 User Manual

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42Entering TextWhen using your phone, you will often need toenter text. For example, when storing a name in thephonebook, creating your personal greeting orscheduling events in your calendar. You can enteralphanumeric characters by using your phone’skeypad.You are provided with the following text inputmodes.• T9 modeThis mode allows you to enter words with onlyone keystroke per letter. Each key on the keypadhas more than one letter – when you pressthe key once, J, K or L may be displayed. TheT9 mode automatically compares your keystrokeswith an internal linguistic dictionary to determinethe correct word, thus requiring far fewerkeystrokes than the traditional upper/lower-casecharacter modes.• Upper/lower-case character modesThese modes allow you to enter letters bypressing the key labelled with the required letteronce, twice, three or four times until the letter isdisplayed.• Symbol modeThis mode allows you to enter symbols, such aspunctuation marks.• Number modeThis mode allows you to enter numbers.Entering Text43Changing the Text Input ModeWhen you are in a field that allows characters to beentered, you will notice the text input modeindicator in the display.Example: Writing a text messageTo select the... Then press the softkey until...T9 mode is displayed.See page 44.Upper-case charactermodeis displayed.See page 46.Lower-case charactermodeis displayed.See page 46.Number mode is displayed.See page 47.Symbol mode is displayed.See page 47.OptionsText input modeindicator