41Entering 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.Your phone has the following text input modes:• Pinyin mode• Chinese Simplified Stroke mode• Quick English mode (T9 mode)*• English mode• Bahasa Malaysia• Chinese Traditional Stroke mode• Number mode• Symbolic mode• Add word modeDirections for using each of the text input modesappears 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.
