Using keyboards
You can tap a text input field to activate the on-screen keyboard. You can switch between
different types of keyboards:
•
Mini QWERTY keyboard – keyboard in portrait mode.
•
Fullscr. QWERTY keyboard – keyboard in landscape mode.
•
Alphanumeric keypad – traditional keypad for alphanumeric characters.
Alphanumeric keypad
1 Close – tap to accept the text in the input window and close the on-screen keypad view
2 Options – tap to open the input options menu to change, for example, the Writing language or view
Help
3 Text input indicator – tap to open a pop-up window, in which you can turn on or off predictive text input
mode, change the character case, and switch between letter and number mode
4 Input methods – tap to change to another input method: Mini QWERTY keyboard, Fullscr. QWERTY
keyboard or Handwriting
5 Left – tap to move the cursor to the left
6 Right – tap to move the cursor to the right
7 Backspace – tap to delete a letter to the left of the cursor
8 Symbol – tap to open the symbol table
9 Space – tap to enter a space or 0
10 Shift – tap to change the character case, turn on or off predictive text input mode, and switch between
the alphabet modes and number mode
To activate the alphanumeric keypad
1
Tap any text input field. For example, select Menu > Messaging > New message
and tap in the area of the screen under the To field.
2
A text input window pops up. Tap
and select Alphanumeric keypad.
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