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.
