42 Section 2A: Your Sprint Power Vision Phone: The BasicsEntering TextSelecting a Character Input ModeYour Sprint Power Vision Phone provides convenient ways toenter words, letters, punctuation, and numbers wheneveryou are prompted to enter text (for example, when adding aContacts entry or when using Sprint PCS Mail and SMS TextMessaging).To change the character input mode:1. When you display a screen where you can enter text,press the right softkey to change the character inputmode.2. Select one of the following options: VoiceMode to enter text by speaking into yourphone. Speech is converted to text and displayed onscreen (see page 124). T9(English) to enter text using a predictive textentering system that reduces the number of keysthat need to be pressed while entering a word(see page 43). Alpha to cycle through the alpha charactersassociated with the letters on the keypad(see page 44). Symbol to enter symbols (see page 45). Number to enter numbers by pressing the numberson the keypad (see page 45). Preset Msg to enter preprogrammed messages (seepage 45). Recent Msg to enter a message from a list ofprevious messages. Emoticons to enter “emoticons” (see page 45).
