Nokia 7650 - Using predictive text input

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• press

and select

Dictionary on

or

• press

quickly twice.

The

indicator is shown at the top of the display.

1 Write the desired word by pressing the keys

-

. Press each key only

once for one letter. The word changes after every key press.

Note: Do not pay attention to what appears on the display. The word match is
evolving, wait until you have keyed in the whole word before you check the
result.

For example, to write ‘Nokia’ when English dictionary is selected, press

for N,
for o,
for k,
for i, and
for a.

As you can see in Fig.

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, the word suggestion changes after each key press.

2 When you have finished the word, check that it is correct.

• If the word is correct, you can confirm it by moving the joystick to the right or by

pressing

to insert a space. The underlining disappears and you can begin to

write a new word.

• If the word is not correct, you have the following options:

• Press

repeatedly to view the matching words the dictionary has found one

by one.

• Press

and select

Dictionary

→

Matches

to view a list of matching words.

Scroll to the word you want to use and press the joystick to select it.

• If the ? character is shown after the word, the word you intended to write is not in

the dictionary. To add a word to the dictionary, press

Spell

, key in the word (max. 32

letters) using traditional text input, and press

Save

. The word is added to the

dictionary. When the dictionary becomes full, a new word replaces the oldest added
word.

Fig. 1 Predictive text
input

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Icons:

and

indicate the

selected case.

means that the first letter
in the message or the first
letter after a full stop,
exclamation or question
mark is written in upper
case and other letters are
written in lower case.

indicates number

mode.

• To remove the ? and clear characters one by one from the word, press

.

Tips on using predictive text input

• To erase a character, press

. Press and hold

to clear more than one

character.

• To change between the different character cases Abc, abc, and ABC , press

.

Note that if you press

quickly twice the predictive text input is turned off.

• To insert a number in letter mode, press and hold the desired number key.

Or press

and select

Insert number

, key in the numbers you want, and press

OK

.

To switch between letter and number mode, press and hold

.

• The most common punctuation marks are available under

. Press

and

then

repeatedly to reach the desired punctuation mark.

Press and hold

to open a list of special characters. Use the joystick to scroll

through the list and press

OK

to select a character. Or press

and select

Insert

symbol

.

Tip! The predictive

text input will try to guess
which commonly used
punctuation mark (.,?!‘) is
needed. The order and
availability of the
punctuation marks
depend on the language
of the dictionary.

• Press

repeatedly to view the matching words the dictionary has found one by

one.

You can also press

, select

Dictionary

and select

•

Matches

- to view a list of words that correspond to your key presses. Scroll to the

desired word and press the joystick.

•

Insert word

- to add a word (max. 32 letters) to the dictionary by using traditional text

input. When the dictionary becomes full, a new word replaces the oldest added word.

•

Edit word

- to open a view where you can edit the word, available only if the word is

active (underlined).

Writing compound words
• Write the first half of a compound word and confirm it by moving the joystick to the

right. Write the last part of the compound word and complete the compound word by
pressing

to add a space.