I loved my blackberry but typing on it was way slower than on a touchscreen with predictive text. Especially when you need non-alphabetical characters.
Even with regular nokia phones people were disabling the t9 because it was faster to just type without predictive text.
For me predictive text is mostly useless because I write in 4 languages and it can't even guess which language I'm using, let alone guess the word I want after.
For me t9 was king - I still remember to type blindly and know exactly how many times to hit the asterisk to get the word I want.
With touch screens I just turn off auto-correct. Sometimes I hit the words above the keyboard to complete/repair a word, sometimes I hit the word that’s underlined red or blue to fix it. But never automatically.
Even with regular nokia phones people were disabling the t9 because it was faster to just type without predictive text.
For me predictive text is mostly useless because I write in 4 languages and it can't even guess which language I'm using, let alone guess the word I want after.