1. User Interface (UI) and Menu · Full Localization: The entire phone's menu system, including settings, messages, contacts, and call logs, would be translated into Modern Standard Arabic. · Right-to-Left (RTL) Support: The menu navigation correctly supported the right-to-left reading direction of Arabic. Text would be aligned to the right, and scroll bars would appear on the left side. 2. Text Input (Typing) · Arabic Keyboard On-Screen: The phone's software included a virtual Arabic keyboard layout. · Predictive Text (T9): It supported predictive text input for Arabic, making typing on the numeric keypad much faster. This feature was known as T9 Arabic. · Text Rendering: The phone could properly display connected Arabic script on its screen, which was a standard but important feature for the time. 3. Messaging (SMS) · Composing & Reading: You could compose, send, and receive SMS messages entirely in Arabic. · Character Limit: Like other languages, the standard 160-character limit per SMS applied for messages using the GSM 7-bit alphabet. Arabic, being a Unicode language, might have reduced this limit to 70 characters per message, which was common for phones of that era when sending Unicode SMS. 4. Other Key Features (with Arabic Support) · Phonebook: You could save contacts with Arabic names. · Caller ID: Arabic names would display correctly for incoming calls. · Web Browser: The basic WAP browser could display Arabic-language websites that were encoded correctly (e.g., in UTF-8).