Patent ID: 7694231

Claim:
A method, comprising: at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display: displaying a plurality of icons on the touch-sensitive display, wherein a respective icon in at least a subset of the plurality of icons corresponds to two or more symbols; detecting a finger contact by a user with the touch-sensitive display that corresponds to the respective icon; determining a respective first symbol in the two or more symbols to which the position of the finger contact further corresponds; modifying the displayed respective icon to indicate that the finger contact corresponds to the respective first symbol, wherein the modifying includes: asymmetrically distorting a shape of the respective icon towards the respective first symbol, and enlarging the respective first symbol; detecting a change of the finger contact to a different position within the respective icon, the different position corresponding to a second symbol of the two or more symbols of the respective icon, if the finger making the contact is being rolled by the user to the different position; and selecting the respective symbol corresponding to the respective current position of the finger contact.