43Entering Text42Entering TextWhen using your phone, you will often need to entertext. 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’s keypad.You are provided with the following text inputmodes.T9 modeThis mode allows you to enter words with only onekeystroke per letter. Each key on the keypad hasmore than one letter – when you press the keyonce, J, K or L may be displayed. The T9 modeautomatically compares your keystrokes with aninternal linguistic dictionary to determine the correctword, thus requiring far fewer keystrokes than thetraditional ABC mode.ABC modeThis mode allows you to enter letters by pressing thekey labelled with the required letter once, twice orthree times until the letter is displayed.Number modeThis mode allows you to enter numbers.Symbolic modeThis mode allows you to enter special characters.is a registered trademark of Tegic Communications, Inc.Changing the Text Input Mode1. When you are in a field that allows characters tobe entered, you will notice the text input modeindicator in the lower right corner of the display.Save ABC Text input modeindicator:ABC: ABC modeNUM: Number mode: T9 modeSYM: Symbolic mode2. Press the right soft key.The modes available are displayed.Enter Name3. Scroll to the required mode, then press the Selectsoft key.