I found out I can set a particular ringtone for particular individuals in my phonebook. That was amusing enough that I cycled through all the ringtones; some of them are quite obnoxious. Not, like, unpleasant to listen to, but I feel like they would draw a lot of attention to me if they went off in my pocket. My present choice is the default ringing phone, but I may pick something else in the long term--especially if I can figure out how to load my own recordings onto the phone.

You know, I just had a thought; a loon call would be a great ringtone. It might be worth drawing attention to myself to have such a great ringtone.

I have a 5 way directional button, but I don't have a "clear" button so I'm not sure my phone will work quite the way yours does. There doesn't seem to be any charge to compose texts, just to send them, so I could experiment a bit, I suppose.

I didn't see anything in the manual about having a "word" mode of texting--but then figuring out how to get the different letters was kind of a random guess anyway. I will look again, and maybe look online.