Predictive text better than keyboard?

[m***@privacy.net]

I'm in market for a smart phone soon.

Many of the smart phones that get decent ratings do not
have a full qwerty thumb-keyboard like the Treo does.

If a person gets such a smartphone that does NOT have a
keyboard....can you use predictive text option to make
typing sms and emails pretty fast and efficient?

In other words.... just how good is that predictive
text option? And must it be "trained"?

[Andreas Wenzel]

Post by m***@privacy.net
[...]
If a person gets such a smartphone that does NOT have a
keyboard....can you use predictive text option to make
typing sms and emails pretty fast and efficient?
[...]

No matter how much you train your predictive text entry, there will
always be ambiguities. It will always annoy you with wrong assumptions
in which case you either need to erase what you have typed and start
over again, or select the word you want from a list. In both cases your
flow of typing is interrupted and you constantly need to move your eyes
from the screen to the keypad and back. In short words, if you need to
type much, get something QERTY.

Andreas

[DevilsPGD]

Post by m***@privacy.net
I'm in market for a smart phone soon.
Many of the smart phones that get decent ratings do not
have a full qwerty thumb-keyboard like the Treo does.
If a person gets such a smartphone that does NOT have a
keyboard....can you use predictive text option to make
typing sms and emails pretty fast and efficient?
In other words.... just how good is that predictive
text option? And must it be "trained"?

In general, very good IF you take the time to learn and understand how
it works. You also have to be able to look at the screen while typing
text, otherwise it will slow you down to be refocusing.

They come with dictionaries, which in my experience are more then
sufficient, to the point that I actually despise phones that self-train
as I get accustomed to the phone *very* quickly.