Samsung A680 and T9 text?

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Thomas T. Veldhouse burbled to the world:

> Alright, I am unable to locate my manual. Does anybody use text
> messaging on the Samsung A680? Do you ever use T9 to write faster?
> If so, what do you do to ask it to switch words when it choses the
> wrong word [i.e. 'am' instead 'an']. My old A500 I just had to press
> up or down on the joystick and it would try another matching word.
> What am I supposed to do on this phone?

The "0" key scrolls through the possiblilites.

Chris

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Thomas T. Veldhouse burbled to the world:

> Chris Pisarra <Chris@pisarra.com> wrote:
>> Thomas T. Veldhouse burbled to the world:
>>
>>> Alright, I am unable to locate my manual. Does anybody use text
>>> messaging on the Samsung A680? Do you ever use T9 to write faster?
>>> If so, what do you do to ask it to switch words when it choses the
>>> wrong word [i.e. 'am' instead 'an']. My old A500 I just had to
>>> press up or down on the joystick and it would try another matching
>>> word. What am I supposed to do on this phone?
>>
>> The "0" key scrolls through the possiblilites.
>>
>
> Thanks! It works perfectly. I wonder why they chose such a
> non-intuiative key for this?

The other keys have letters on them?

Chris

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Chris Pisarra <Chris@pisarra.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks! It works perfectly. I wonder why they chose such a
>> non-intuiative key for this?
>
> The other keys have letters on them?
>
> Chris

Scrolling with the joystick/pad makes the most sense to me.

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"Chris Pisarra" <Chris@Pisarra.com> wrote in message
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> Thomas T. Veldhouse burbled to the world:
>
>> Alright, I am unable to locate my manual. Does anybody use text
>> messaging on the Samsung A680? Do you ever use T9 to write faster?
>> If so, what do you do to ask it to switch words when it choses the
>> wrong word [i.e. 'am' instead 'an']. My old A500 I just had to press
>> up or down on the joystick and it would try another matching word.
>> What am I supposed to do on this phone?
>
> The "0" key scrolls through the possiblilites.
>
> Chris

Perfect! Now, is there a way to get T9 as the default when choosing
Messaging?
Jack.