Entering Text49Entering TextWhen using your phone, you often need to enter text, suchas storing a name in Phonebook, creating your personalgreeting or scheduling events on your calendar. You canenter alphanumeric characters by using your phone’skeypad.Your phone has the following text input modes:♦T9 modeThis mode allows you to enter words with only onekeystroke per letter. Each key on the keypad has morethan one letter; for example, when you press the keyonce, J, K or L displays. The T9 mode automaticallycompares your keystrokes with an internal linguisticdictionary to determine the correct word, thus requiring farfewer keystrokes than the traditional upper/lower-casecharacter modes.♦Alphabet modeThese modes allow you to enter letters by pressing thekey labeled with the letter you want to enter once, twice,three or four times until the letter displays.♦Symbol modeThis mode allows you to enter symbols, such aspunctuation marks.♦Number modeThis mode allows you to enter numbers.
