Nokia 3585 - • Write with ABC and 123 modes

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• WRITE WITH ABC AND 123 MODES

A status indicator in the upper left corner of your screen shows what
mode you are using to enter information into your phone (phone
book, calendar, or text messaging).

The following table lists the characters you can use enter text and
numbers from your keypad:

Mode

The phone shows

Use for

ABC

sentence or title case (first letter
uppercase)
all uppercase letters
all lowercase letters

Entering names, numbers or
addresses in phone book

Entering notes in Calendar
Writing a text message

123

number entry.

Entering numbers

Special
characters

special characters list

Entering punctuation or
special characters

Predictive text

in combination with ABC mode
indicators.

Writing SMS text messages or
calendar notes

Key

Characters

Key

Characters

. , ‘?!”1

P Q R S 7

A B C 2

T U V 8

D E F 3

W X Y Z 9

G H I 4

Space, 0, return

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Text entry

Pressing a key repeatedly cycles you through all of that key’s options. To enter a letter, press
the appropriate key repeatedly until the desired letter appears. Continue this process until the
word or name is completed.

Note:

If the next letter in the word you’re entering is on the same key, wait two to three

seconds for the cursor to advance, then enter the new letter, or press the zero key to
advance the cursor.

Important:

Your phone’s language settings may affect the characters associated with

your phone’s keypad.

For example: to enter the name “Albert”:

Press the two key

A

Press the five key three times

l

Press the two key two times

b

Press the three key two times

e

Press the seven key three times

r

Press the eight key

t

Note:

Default mode is sentence case where first letter of a name or sentence is

automatically capitalized. Phone book default mode is title case where each word
is capitalized.

OTHER OPTIONS

Delete mistakes - If you make a mistake, press Clear to delete one character to the left.

Press and hold the Clear key to speed up the erasing process.

Enter a space - After you complete a word or name, press the zero key to enter a space.

Change letter case - Press the pound key to switch between the text entry modes or from

uppercase and lowercase letters.

To start a new line

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Press the zero key three times.

Enter numbers

Your phone automatically switches to 123 mode when entering a number into your phone
book. When in ABC mode, you can insert numbers using any of the following methods:

• Press and hold the pound key for two seconds to switch to 123 mode, then press the desired

number keys. Press and hold the pound key again to return to ABC mode.

• Press and hold the desired number key until the number appears on the display.

• Press the desired key repeatedly until the desired number appears.

J K L 5

Special characters menu

M N O 6

Changes letter case or mode.

Key

Characters

Key

Characters

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Enter punctuation/other characters

You can enter punctuation, special characters, and symbols for text
messages, notes, phone book entries, or Internet browsing.

You can add punctuation or special characters by these methods:

• Press the one key repeatedly in ABC mode to cycle through the

most common punctuation marks and special characters.

• Press the star key to display the characters and scroll to highlight the desired character, then

press Select.

Important:

Some networks may not support all language-dependent characters.

Use special characters in phone numbers

You can enter certain special characters as a part of the phone numbers you save to the phone
book. Press the star key repeatedly to cycle through the four special characters available for
phone numbers.

* This character sends command strings to the network. Contact your service provider for

more information.

+ This character is used to link a 1-touch dialing location to the number currently being

entered.

p This character creates a pause that occurs when the phone dials a number. Numbers entered

to the right of this character are automatically sent as touch tones after a second pause.

w This character causes the phone to wait for you to press Send.

• WRITE WITH PREDICTIVE TEXT

Your phone offers predictive text input for entering text quickly.
Predictive text uses a highly compressed database (or dictionary) of
common words and tries to anticipate the word you are entering.

Watching predictive text guess a word can be confusing,
so you should disregard the screen until all characters
have been entered.

Example: To write “Nokia”:

What you press

What you see

Press the six key - N

O

Press the six key - o

On