Amazon Fire Phone For Dummies

Chapter 4

Text Creation and Editing

In This Chapter

Typing on the onscreen keyboard

Getting at special characters

Using word suggestion shortcuts

Tracing text on the keyboard

Dictating text with voice input

Selecting, cutting, copying, and pasting text

It may seem odd, especially given that your Fire phone is missing a physical keyboard, but you’ll create a lot of text on the phone. Though you could write The Great American Novel, odds are that most of your work with text involves short tidbits, names, passwords, email, text messages, and comments on a social networking site. Those activities require that you somehow create text. This chapter explains how it’s done on a device as revolutionary as the Fire phone.

Behold! The Onscreen Keyboard

Don’t worry about finding the phone’s onscreen ...