Abstract: A device for controlling a screen according to data loading in a terminal is provided. The device includes a display whose screen brightness value is changed step by step while data is being loaded, and a controller configured to control to change, if data information is requested, a screen brightness value of the display step by step according to progress of data loading, and to control to display the data being loaded, on the display whose screen brightness value is changed step by step.

Abstract: An apparatus and method input text by using a text icon in a portable terminal. The method includes mapping a text to an image and registering the mapping result as a text icon, determining whether a long touch is detected for an input window in a text input mode, upon detecting the long touch for the input window in the text input mode, displaying a popup window including a pre-registered text icon list onto a screen, selecting one text icon from the pre-registered text icon list included in the popup window, and inputting the text mapped to the selected text icon to the input window.

Abstract: A method and apparatus scroll a screen in a touch screen terminal. The method includes entering a screen scroll mode, determining the direction of screen scroll, preparing screen scroll of the determined direction, and waiting to receive a screen scroll signal for operating the screen scroll, and, if the screen scroll signal is received, performing the screen scroll in the previously determined direction.