I’m not sure if everyone in here is using cellphones but then I still want to ask if you are familiar with t9 predictive text. I had a few friends who constantly use it.
Yeah… I like it on the Sony-Ericsson mobile phones.
I always use it. have also got the Sony-Ericsson K800i.
I use my phone for…GASP Phone calls. I reserve text messages for emails.
I’m a curmudgeon. Get off my lawn you dag blamed kids.
I find it highly annoying until I remember how to overwrite it. But I rarely text as I find it too dang slow. Maybe I’m allowed on Fly’s lawn.
Sure. Let me clean up after the dalmation first.
I use it all the time. In fact I’ve just sent my wife a message asking her to tell of what time she’s coming good. 
I don’t have it turned on - it drives me batty. I’d much rather type slowly than having to change the darn word.
With the provider we’re on, if we are near a computer we can text someone’s phone from a screen on our email. I do that all the time.
I like the predictive text…and it’s faster (for me, at least) to hit “next” and get the word I want than to type out the entire word by hand. On my phone (like Steve’s) “good” comes up if I type 4663, so to get “home” I type 46630 (the 0 is the “next” button). To do it by hand would take typing 46666663.
My last phone had a dictionary that would remember any word you manually spelled out, so that it could be predicted later. I wish my current phone did that.
I thought they all did that.
they do, but I think phones have limited capacity of newly added words. after a while old stored words are kicked out to make space for the new ones.
they don’t all do that..my current phone is super-cheap, because I was not able to buy it at a discount without extending my service agreement. It lacks some amenities. It’s my understanding that you guys across the pond have a much better ability to get cheap phones because of the whole sim-card thing makes it hard for cell phone service providers to link service to phones.
You guys can buy a new phone, pop in your coded chip, and away you go…most providers here don’t give us that luxury. So, our phones are outrageoulsy expensive unless we also buy contracted (for a couple years or so) phone service with them.
Texting is considerably cheaper than calling, under some calling plans. Also, you can often send texts to email addresses, and vice versa.
There have been recent studies how speed dial lists and address books on cell phones have further dummed down the population by no longer having to remember phone numbers.
Next our vocabulary with predictive T9…
Heh, I’d rather see predictive T9 text than "YO LTNC, HRU? WL I JST GT BK FRM CRTE. 
ND WZ XLNT. GT UP2 SO MCH FRU OT D 2WKS. 1ST WK WNT FST. . "
I’m happy to share that I’m cell-phone-free. A month ago, I also reverted to a paper-based Day-Timer (2 page-per-day version!). Original pale green pages, too.
I still have to keep a schedule in Outlook to allow others to schedule for and around me, but the disadvantages are outweighed by the fact that people don’t phone–I just get meeting requests by email–and Outlook will remind you.
The time savings are considerable.
I am familiarizing myself in this feature and I can say that it is much easier than multi-tapping. 
I found a T9 Quick Tip tutorial. I guess this one might help a lot.
I think I’m the only college student in the country who doesn’t know how to text message. My phone isn’t even capable of text messaging. I consider this a plus.
How could that be possible. For me text messages is one of the technology which helps a lot. You can communicate to the person if you can’t reach them through phone calls. Well it’s an opinion.