Making some progress with splitting the input handling from the GUI, as I said earlier... There's still a ton of stuff to do, but I've got predictive text actually working, and rather quickly too.

Unfortunately, the way I'm doing things, it adds quite a considerable startup delay. (Basically, I load the word list into memory, then split it up into smaller lists according to the length of each word. This allows really fast lookups (no delay at all, just like a normal phone) at the expense of a longer startup time. I'm sure there is a better way of doing this, but it will work for now.

Also, backspacing doesn't work (yet) and the dictionary is unordered... Meaning that if you want "are" and type "2-7-3", you will actually get "ape". Not very helpful

On a related note, Gitorious is rather cool...

Repo's at http://gitorious.org/~cb22/vertsms/cb22-vertsms