38Entering TextWhen using your phone, you will often need toenter text, such as when storing a name in thePhonebook, creating your personal greeting orscheduling events on 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 the 5key once, J, K or L displays. The T9 modeautomatically compares your keystrokes with aninternal linguistic dictionary to determine thecorrect word, thus requiring far fewer keystrokesthan the traditional alphabet mode.• Alphabet modeThis mode allows you to enter letters by pressingthe key labelled with the letter you want to enteronce, twice, three or four times until it displays.• Number modeThis mode allows you to enter numbers.• Symbol modeThis mode allows you to enter various symbolsand special characters.Entering Text39Changing 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: Writing a text messageTo select the Press the right soft keyuntilT9 mode displays.See page 40.Alphabet mode displays.See page 42.Number mode displays.See page 43.Symbol mode the symbol list displays.See page 44.Options Text inputmode indicatorWrite New