Adaptxt improves predictive text on mobile phones

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Are you frustrated with word prediction on your Nokia? Have you ever entered a long word and thought, why doesn't prediction have an auto-complete function! I mean if you enter antidisestablishmentarianism or supercalifragisiticexpialidoshus (and please excuse any spelling mistakes!!!) in your phone then they are not likely to be mixed up with any other words are they?

Adaptxt, available as a beta product and also available from the Nokia Ovi store, makes some sensible improvements to cell phone predictive text entry. As you type it lets you know what the most likely complete word would be, given the letters you have entered so far. Simply press the right button to accept the word, or down arrow to choose from other words. This can greatly speed up typing.

A further feature helps you by predicting not just the current word but also the most likely phrase. This means that you can click further right button keys to accept further words. Of course when the phrase is wrong (which is too often for my liking) you can start entering the correct word and simply use word prediction.

Anyway it is early days for this add-on. First impressions are of a feature that, if I can tame it will become possibly become one of my favourite apps.