__ghost__@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I feel you. T9 on my sidekick in 2008 was better than my current predictable text. At one point my screen was so broken that I was using maybe a 1/4" sliver of the screen to text, and text prediction was solid enough to give actual suggestions
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Another advantage of T9 is that words with prediction alternatives were offered in a consistent order, so the most common cases could easily be memorized and later recalled by tapping the next-word button a certain number of times. This allowed me to reliably write messages without looking at the screen at all.