Text Entry

Keyboards

Use onscreen keyboards for text entry. In 12-key Keyboard, multiple characters are assigned to each key. In QWERTY Keyboard, a single letter is assigned to each key.

  • Tap a text entry field for keyboard. To hide it, Tapon Navigation Bar.
  • Text entry descriptions are for iWnn IME - SH edition. Before reading on, switch input method from Android keyboard (selected when interface language is set to English) to iWnn IME - SH edition as follows.
    In a text entry window, Drag Status Bar downChoose input methodJapanese

Switching Keyboards

  • In a text entry window,Change input UI

  • When How to Change Input UI window opens after Tapping, Tap CLOSE. To disable it thereafter, select Don't show again. beforehand.

  • Set QWERTY keyboard or Set 12 keyboard

Keyboard is switched.

12-Key Keyboard Layout

  1. Enter characters.
  2. Undo conversion; reverse-toggle character options before confirming entry.
  3. Backspace cursor.
  4. Enter pictograms1, symbols, or emoticons; switch conversion options.
  5. Toggle entry modes.
  6. Enter space; toggle case; add ゛ or ゜ for hiragana.
  7. Current entry mode
  8. Delete characters.
  9. Advance cursor; add space at text end; specify character count for conversion before confirming entry.
  10. Open text entry options; enter space; convert hiragana.
  11. Insert line break; confirm current characters.

1My Emoji pictograms are available for MMS message text.

QWERTY Keyboard Layout

  1. Enter characters.
  2. Toggle case.
  3. Toggle entry modes.
  4. Enter pictograms1, symbols, or emoticons.
  5. Undo conversion.
  6. Open text entry options.
  7. Current entry mode
  8. Delete characters.
  9. Insert line break; confirm current characters.
  10. Advance cursor; add space at text end; specify character count for conversion before confirming entry.
  11. Backspace cursor.
  12. Enter space; convert hiragana.

1My Emoji pictograms are available for MMS message text.

Switching Entry Modes

Tapto toggle Half Numeric, Kanji, and Half Alphabet modes. Alternatively, Flickleft/right to toggle these modes. To use other entry modes, follow these steps.

  • In a text entry window,Change input mode

  • When How to Change Input UI window opens after Tapping, Tap CLOSE. To disable it thereafter, select Don't show again. beforehand.

  • Tap mode

Keyboard interface changes accordingly. Current entry mode indicator--(Half Alphabet),(Kanji),(Full Katakana), etc.--appears.

Entering Letters

In 12-key Keyboard, enter Keitai in Half Alphabet as follows.

  • Check Half Alphabet mode is selected (on Status Bar)

  • (twice: K)(twice: e)(three times: i)(once: t)(once: a)(three times: i)
  • The first letter is capitalized automatically by default. (Cancel auto capitalization as needed.)

  • (Confirm)

Keitai is entered.

  • To toggle case, type a letter and Tap.

Flick Input

In 12-key Keyboard, Flick key for target character (instead of Tapping it repeatedly).

  • Touch & Hold a key for guide; Flick toward target character to enter.

Target Character

Operation

P

Taponce.

Q

Touchand Flick left.

R

Touchand Flick up.

S

Touchand Flick right.

7

Touchand Flick down.
  • To enable/disable key preview and Flick input guide, in a text entry window, TapChange settingsDisplay / LayoutKey input guide.