Iridium 9555 Configuration guide

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9555 Satellite Phone
User’s Manual Supplement
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1 IIntroduction...........................1.1
2 IPredictive Text Entry .................. 2.1
LetterWise Text Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3
WordWise Text Mode ....................2.5
Digit Mode ..............................2.6
Punctuation Mode.......................2.7
3 IAdvanced Calling Capabilities ......... 3.1
Call Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1
Call Waiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4
IContents
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1 IIntroduction
Thank you for purchasing the state of the art
Iridium 9555 Satellite Phone. Iridium is the only
provider of truly global satellite voice and data
communications solutions with complete
coverage of the entire earth including oceans,
airways and even polar regions. The Iridium 9555
Satellite Phone delivers reliable, secure, real-time,
high quality voice and data to the Iridium satellite
network from any point on the globe.
The information presented in this document is a
supplement to the 9555 Satellite Phone User
Manual. The information provided describes the
procedures for predictive text entry and
advanced calling capabilities. All other
information, such as safety, overall use and
certications can be found in the 9555 Satellite
Phone User Manual.
The intent of this supplement is to provide
information not yet incorporated into the 9555
Satellite Phone User Manual. It is temporary in
nature and will be obsolete once incorporated
into the 9555 Satellite Phone User Manual.
Iridium 9555 Satellite Phone I 1 Introduction
1.1
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Iridium 9555 Satellite Phone I 2 Predictive Text Entry
2.1
2IPredictive Text Entry
Predictive text is implemented on the 9555
Satellite Phone and is eective in 3 areas:
Creating an SMS/Email•
Adding Notes to an existing Phonebook•
entry
Entering the Name eld for a Phonebook•
entry (LetterWise only)
Predictive text is not set on a new phone by
default, it must be enabled. This may be done in
the following manner. Starting at the main
screen,
Press the Menu softkey1.
Select "Setup" (6 clicks down)2.
In the Setup menu, select "Language" (33.
clicks down)
In the Language menu, select "Text entry"4.
In the Text entry menu, Multi-tap is the default
selection. Multi-tap has no language sensitivity,
other than the fact that it provides standard
Western characters. To choose predictive text,
select one of:
English•
Français•
Español•
Once you have made this change, all SMS entry
and entry of contacts will incorporate Predictive
Text capabilities specic to the selected
language. Once selected, select the "Back"
option twice, then scroll up to "Messages" to use
Predictive Text entry for messaging. If you wish
to change back to "Multi-Tap" in the future, you
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Iridium 9555 Satellite Phone I2 Predictive Text Entry
2.2
For all alphabetic languages:
Save Clear
12 ABC 3 DEF
4 GHI 5 JKL 6 MNO
7 PQRS 8 TUV 9 WXYZ
0 +
#
*
∆«
Pressing the Pound key
(#) switches between
lower and upper case ,
indicated by the ()
symbol. This is the Shift
key.
Pressing the Zero key (0)
enters a space, indicated
by the ()symbol. This
is the Space key.
1 key can be used for
entering punctuation,
however for full and
ecient punctuation
entry you can switch to
Punctuation mode
(123).
Pressing the Asterisk (*)
key enters the next word
or letter, indicated by
the ( )symbol. This is
the Next key.
will need to adjust this setting.
There are two modes of predictive text entry:
WordWise (ww) which provides word•
prediction for users who like dictionary-
based methods
LetterWise (lw) for letter-by-letter•
prediction for situations where word-based
prediction doesn’t aord the exibility that
may be required in some situations.
There are two modes of special character entry:
Punctuation (#?@) for entry of punctuation•
and special symbols
Digit (123) for entry of numbers•
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Iridium 9555 Satellite Phone I 2 Predictive Text Entry
2.3
In order to complete a message, you may need
to switch between these four main modes of
text entry during message creation:
WordWise (ww) - word predictive text•
entry
LetterWise (lw) - letter-by-letter predictive•
text entry
Numbers (123) - number entry (non-•
predictive)
Punctuation (#?@) - punctuation entry•
(non-predictive)
The appropriate text entry mode can be
selected by pressing the Convenience key on
the side of the 9555 Satellite Phone. The active
text entry mode will be displayed on the screen
as indicated in the illustrations on the following
page.
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Iridium 9555 Satellite Phone I2 Predictive Text Entry
2.4
Convenience
key
Options Clear
New
ww 1000
Options Clear
New
lw 1000
Options Clear
New
#?@ 1000
Options Clear
New
123 1000
WordWise
LetterWise
Digit
Punctuation
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2.5
f
Options Clear
12 ABC 3 DEF
4 GHI 5 JKL 6 MNO
7 PQRS 8 TUV 9 WXYZ
0 +
#
*
∆«
T
1. Press key 3
Desired letter did
not come up
d
Options Clear
12 ABC 3 DEF
4 GHI 5 JKL 6 MNO
7 PQRS 8 TUV 9 WXYZ
0 +
#
*
∆«
T
2. Press Next key ( )
for desired letter.
Proceed to next
letter of the word.
Desired letter
LetterWise Text mode:
Press the Convenience key until you are in
LetterWise (lw) text mode. Press the key with
the desired letter. If it doesn’t appear, press the
Next key ( )until it does. Use the Right Soft
key (Clear) for backspace and Space key ( )
for space. Press the Shift key ()to switch
between lower and upper case.
Note: Apostrophe (‘) for English entry and
hyphen (-) for Russian entry are treated as letters
(i.e. can be predicted by LetterWise) and are
found on key 5.
Example: Entering “don’t”
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2.6
do
Options Clear
12 ABC 3 DEF
4 GHI 5 JKL 6 MNO
7 PQRS 8 TUV 9 WXYZ
0 +
#
*
∆«
T
3. Press key 6
Correct letter
appears
don
Options Clear
12 ABC 3 DEF
4 GHI 5 JKL 6 MNO
7 PQRS 8 TUV 9 WXYZ
0 +
#
*
∆«
T
4. Press key 6 again
don’
Options Clear
12 ABC 3 DEF
4 GHI 5 JKL 6 MNO
7 PQRS 8 TUV 9 WXYZ
0 +
#
*
∆«
T
5. Press key 5 for
apostrophe
Apostrophe is
predicted along with
letters in English
don’t
Options Clear
12 ABC 3 DEF
4 GHI 5 JKL 6 MNO
7 PQRS 8 TUV 9 WXYZ
0 +
#
*
∆«
T
6. Press key 8 for “t”
and complete word
Correct letter
appears
Correct letter
appears
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