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On 7 December 2011 21:32, Andrew Burton <aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > Most mobile phones (atleast the ones I have seen) have 2 options - > predictive text (T9 mode on my 8 year old mobile phone) and ABC mode.

[Waves] Hi!

It's fine once you get used to it. It really does use fewer keystrokes - quite a lot fewer. It's great if you learn how to use it /if/ you are a relatively light to moderate texter. Heavy users who want the absolute maximum speed, however, seem to favour non-predictive entry, as it is deterministic, so you don't need to wait and see what emerges. Predictive text is interactive: you press the keys, just once each, for each letter, then you step through the offered words, pick the one you want and move on - or teach the phone the new word. This means that the list of offerings changes over time, and that means it's non-deterministic. Some phones put the new words on the end of the list, some on the beginning, but either way, it will be a different number of choices to loop through the list.