Learn how to enter text on your Huawei Ascend Mate. Your phone comes with multiple text input methods. You can quickly enter text using the onscreen keyboard.
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Touch a text box to bring up the onscreen keyboard. 
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To hide the onscreen keyboard, touch View icon.  
Selecting an input method
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On the text input screen, flick down from the status bar to open the notification panel. 
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Touch Keyboard icon to select an input method. 
Note: To change your phone’s default input method, touch Settings icon on the home screen. Then touch the All tab. Under PERSONAL, touch Language & input > Default to select an input method.
Huawei input method
Slide your finger left or right across the onscreen keyboard to switch between the QWERTY and 9-key keyboards.
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Touch Caps lock icon to switch between lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and caps lock. 
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Touch *#12 to enter numbers and symbols. 
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Touch to smiley icon enter emoticons. 
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Touch World icon to switch between QWERTY, 9-key, and other input modes. 
Android input method

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Touch Caps lock icon to switch between lowercase and uppercase letters. 
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Quickly touch Capslock icon twice to turn on caps lock. 
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Touch ?123 to enter numbers and symbols. 
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Touch Voice mate icon to switch to voice input. 
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Touch Voice mate icon and hold to open the Input options menu. 
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Touch Enter Space icon to enter a space. 
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Touch and hold Enter Space icon to choose another input method. 
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Touch Enterperiod icon to enter a period. 
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Touch and hold Enter period icon to enter symbols. 
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Touch Delete icon to delete the character to the left of the cursor. 
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Touch and hold Delete icon to delete all characters to the left of the cursor. 

