Thread: 3G not so great on Vodafone UK?
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2010-03-09 , 15:23
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#57
Originally Posted by Fargus View Post
Why would you want T9 when you have the qwerty keyboard to type it properly? It's a lot quicker to type like that. It would be nice as an option for text entry using the touchscreen pad though for some use cases, automated call lines being one.
No way are my two thumbs, pecking on those tiny keys, faster than me using predictive text on e.g. a nokia 5800

The 5800 had a fantastic feature as of v40 whereby holding the phone in portrait showed a keyboard:

1.... 2abc 3def
4ghi 5jkl 6mno
7pqrs 8tuv 9wxyz

and did predictive text (3663 -> "food", 3663* -> "done" etc)

When you came to a work your knew wouldnt spell, rotate the phone landscape and get a full qwerty keyboard, type, rotate back


T9 predictive speed will for me always be greater than tiny qwerty, just from the size of my fingers and the accuracy with which I can hence type

More than anything else, on this phone, I'd like to see that 3x4 dialpad and predictive text for text entry.. Ive practically stopped texting on this because text entry is so cumbersome..