PORTABLE TERMINAL, CHARACTER SELECTIVELY INPUTTING DEVICE, AND CHARACTER SELECTIVELY INPUTTING METHOD

摘要

A pager comprises a display for displaying characters of character groups and a rotary knob for selecting and determining a desired character from one of character groups for character input. The rotary knob includes a rotary encoder and a switch and can be rotated and pushed in. In a character group area displayed on the display, arrow marks serving as soft keys for switching the character group are displayed. By selecting an arrow mark by the rotary knob, one of the other character groups is selected.