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0 pointsspiderfarmer1y ago0 comments

I loved my blackberry but typing on it was way slower than on a touchscreen with predictive text. Especially when you need non-alphabetical characters.

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guappa1y ago· 1 in thread

I can't say I can relate.

Even with regular nokia phones people were disabling the t9 because it was faster to just type without predictive text.

For me predictive text is mostly useless because I write in 4 languages and it can't even guess which language I'm using, let alone guess the word I want after.

jeffhuys1y ago

For me t9 was king - I still remember to type blindly and know exactly how many times to hit the asterisk to get the word I want.

With touch screens I just turn off auto-correct. Sometimes I hit the words above the keyboard to complete/repair a word, sometimes I hit the word that’s underlined red or blue to fix it. But never automatically.

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