44Entering 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.Your phone has the following text input modes:• T9 modeThis mode allows you to enter words with onlyone keystroke per letter. Each key on the keypadhas more than one letter – when you press thekey once, J, K or L may be displayed. The T9mode 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 labeled with the required letteronce, twice, three or four times until the letterdisplays.• Symbol modeThis mode allows you to enter symbols, such aspunctuation marks.• Number modeThis mode allows you to enter numbers.Entering Text45Changing the Text Input ModeWhen you are in a field that allows characters to beentered, you will notice the text input modeindicator on the display.Example: When you create a text messageTo select the... Press the soft keyuntil...T9 mode displays.See page 46.Upper-case charactermodeA displays.See page 47.Lower-case charactermodea displays.See page 47.Number mode 1 displays.See page 49.Symbol mode displays.See page 49.918OptionsText input modeindicator