LG Viewty Messaging Video Tutorial
A great video tutorial teaching you the 4 ways of text messaging input on the LG Viewty (KU990).
LG Viewty video tutorial brought to you by MobilePhoneTraining.co.uk
Step 1: Welcome to mobile phone training:
Hi and welcome to mobilephonetraining.co.uk. We’re here again talking about the LG Viewty KU990 handset was launched in October last year. We are going to go through messaging – I’m sure that you have seen our previous video which was the basic controls of the Viewty. This one is about the messaging.
Step 2: Unlock phone:
So, to get your handset alive – normally the keypad is locked you press your unlock key, is just here. So we press the unlock key, brings the phone to life. Press it again it unlocks the keypad for you. So as you can see this is our screen here– we are going to go into the messaging feature so this is like tip number 1, how to do messaging on the handset.
Step 3: The floating arrows:
What you will notice on the front of your Viewty is that you will have some floating arrows, here. You can rub your finger along the floating arrows and it gives you a nine function access shortcut menu. What is does for you it allows you to access various functions. Depending on which network variants you have – our one is the generic variant. But depending on which network variant you have it will display different functions. So we will probably have T-Mobile which has the web ‘n’ walk symbol here and Vodaphone with the Vodaphone logo there.
Step 4: Tips:
So to quickly send a message you can you use the nine access shortcuts and then press new message. Then what happens is you are faced with a normal mobile phone keypad. Now what you probably notice is on the top of my screen here at the top you have a text message toolbar which allows you to choose which type of messaging form that you want to do. So you can choose Keyboard, Handwriting Screen or Handwriting Box. The great thing about the Viewty is that it gives you about four different ways of input text. So we will go through those.
Step 5: Efficiency:
The thing that I like is that I can go quickly into my names and numbers and quickly insert a name and number. So I can send it to somebody else who wanted to save my friends contact details.
Step 6: Predictive texts:
So with predictive texting on, this handset makes it so much easier because now what you can do is use predictive texting. But because the handset has haptec technology which is a vibrational response that you receive from the handset. Its really cool. So all type in hello and there we are hello comes up on the screen – fairly simple. It feels great because it feels as good as if you are pressing buttons for instance. If we typed in a word that has many different meanings – so if we typed in “good” into the handset we know that we can press this star key here which allows us to rotate on the screen. So you will have “home” as the next one if you tap it again you get “gone”. Tap it again you will get “hood”. Then you get various other words that come up. Now should the word of your choice not be there – what happens is the handset automatically at the bottom left here which is a sub-menu key changes to “spell” and you can tap “spell” and there you are you can add your own words to your dictionary.
Step 7: Keyboard typing:
Other things to think about is when you are going in to text messaging what else you can do is keyboard which gives you a very well spaced qwerty keyboard. What I am going to show you now is how to access that . So you tap the toolbar - which is just here. Go to keyboard, turn it on its side and what you have got is a very well spaced qwerty keyboard. Now the good thing on that the keyboard is that the delete in all of this is this clear button here. If you tap the keyboard icon here you can go into 123 mode, you can go into foreign lettering mode and you can return back and you have a shift key, of course, just to tap it into all caps if you wanted to. Remember your delete key is conveniently located in between your phone and your hang-up key just here. Its not the back arrow – if you tap the back arrow, which I will show you it will take you back out of text messaging.
Step 8: The handwriting screen:
The other thing that I wanted to show you is the handwriting screen. So you can go into handwriting screen and very easily write on the whole screen. I am going to go through handwriting recognition. What you get is this little stylus which you get inside the box from LG. Just give it a quick tug and it reveals a stylus. The great thing here is you can write on the screen. So I am going to write “Hello” in my terrible handwriting and it will render what you are writing. The key thing that you probably picked up on here is I can write on top of letters and it should still render while I am trying to write. There you are “Welcome”. The great thing here is the LG Viewty has the software compatibility to recognise letters on top of letters. It does not recognise transcribe which is the ability to write in joined up handwriting for instance. It won’t recognise those things.
Step 9: Deleting text:
The other thing that you have probably noticed that I have done is to delete is you drag from right to left and you can delete all the keys. Say that you had a block of text here that you wanted to delete. You press the hand icon which is between your toolbox and it kind of acts like a shift button and you drag and cross the words. You can see that they are highlighted there. Un-shift and drag from right to left and it deletes that block of text for you.The other thing to bear in mind is that if you wanted type in 123 mode – which is numeric. So you press the “A” toolbar on the right hand side – the abc toolbar, press 123 and again the handset should recognise all the numbers that I am wrighting here. It probably didn’t recognise eight because I slipped, eight, nine. There you are, again same like the handwriting recognition with the letters you can write on top of words.
Step 10: Customisation:
The other thing to bear in mind if I put it back into abc mode is that this handset gives you superior functionality in terms of customisation. You can go into things like handwriting setup and change things like the pen width so we can choose something a lot thinner if we wanted to. As you can see the text is quiet thin there or you can even change the text colour – you have a nice palette of colours that you can choose from. We obviously chose the pink because it’s our favourite colour but pink actually shows up better on the video for you so you can see.The other thing to bear in mind is delay time or area of transparency – we have put it on a level of short as we like to write very quickly in handwriting mode but you can have it on the screen a lot longer and it will stay there. As you can see. So the other good things as well is you can tap here to access thing like symbols and various other bits and pieces like putting the @ sign because you won’t be able to write - you won’t be able to tap these as it won’t be able to recognise it. But it is still very good as it gives you quick access to these functions. T
Step 11: The handwriting box:
he other thing that we wanted to show you as well is the handwriting box. The handwriting box gives you this thing at the bottom of the screen which has got a very feint line in the middle which means that you have to stick to the confines of the box to write in it. As you can see from left to right, left to right and it will continue to render what you are trying to write. If you press the shift key it turns it into a different abc mode, to turn it into capitals press the shift key again it puts itself into what is known as the full caps mode.So that is messaging on the LG Viewty or KU990 brought to you my mobilephonetraining.co.uk
