Sony Ericsson W710i User Guide - Page 16

To enter letters using multitap input • Press - repeatedly until the desired character appears. • Press to shift between capital and lower-case letters. • Press and hold - to enter numbers. • Press to delete letters or numbers. • Press for the most common punctuation marks. • Press to add a space. T9™ Text Input The T9 Text Input method uses a in-built dictionary to recognize the most commonly used word for each sequence of key presses. This way, you press each key only once, even if the letter you want is not the first letter on the key. To enter letters using T9 Text Input 1 To enter text, you have to be in a function where text input is possible, for example, } Messaging } Write new } Text message. 2 For example, to write the word "Jane", press , , , . 3 If the word shown is the one you want, press to accept and add a space. To accept a word without adding a space, press . If the word shown is not the one you want, press or repeatedly to view alternative words. 4 Continue writing the message. To enter a punctuation mark, press and then or repeatedly, press to accept and add a space. To add words to the T9 Text Input dictionary 1 When entering letters } More } Spell word. 2 Edit the word by using multitap input. Use and to move the cursor between the letters. To delete a character, press . To delete the entire word, press and hold . When you have edited the word } Insert. The word is added to the T9 Text Input dictionary. Next time you enter this word using T9 Text Input, it appears in alternative words. Next word prediction When writing a message, you can use T9 Text Input to predict the next word, if previously used in a sentence. 16 Getting to know the phone This is the Internet version of the user's guide. © Print only for private use.