Patent ID: 7385531

Claim:
A method of entering text into an electronic communications device by means of a keypad having a number of keys, each key representing a plurality of letters and/or phonetic symbols, and wherein entered text is displayed on a display arranged on the electronic communications device, the method comprising: activating a sequence of keys; generating possible phonetic syllables corresponding to said activated key sequence; comparing said possible syllables with a vocabulary stored in a memory, said vocabulary comprising syllables and corresponding characters occurring in a given language; pre-selecting those of said stored syllables and corresponding characters that match said possible syllables; and presenting a number of the pre-selected characters on said display, wherein a number of said pre-selected phonetic syllables are presented on the display in a separate first graphical object arranged predominantly on the display, and wherein characters corresponding to at least one of the syllables presented in the first graphical object are simultaneously presented in a second graphical object.