One of the biggest ‘wow’ factors of the E71 is the new predictive text feature, the first of its kind on a QWERTY Nokia. I’ve been trying it out on my Nokia E71, and while I was first tempted to disable it, I’ve definitely gotten used to it, and now see it as a very valuable feature. Vaibhav over at The Symbian Blog has put together a great little walkthrough - with screenshots - showing the various aspects of this new feature, to give you an idea.
Also, he’s pitted the E71, with its predictive text, against the Nokia E90, former QWERTY Nokia champion, and the Nokia N78, with its standard numeric keypad and T9 predictive text. He’s done well in documenting the findings scientifically, and I was surprised to see the end results, that’s for sure.
Personally, I think that I’m able to type much faster on the E71 with its predictive text entry, what about you?
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hum, when i had the e61 i really wanted this feature, now i have the e71 ive barely used it…
I find typing is much faster on these qwerty keyboards than a normal nokia.
Only thing i would like would be a spell checker!
I agree with the last poster about wanting this functionality on the E61 however my suggestion was shot down in flames by some on other boards. I couldn’t understand why. Predictive words saves so much time.
I only received my E71 yesterday so no time to know if it’s the wonder feature I hoped.
I never missed this feature - only missed decent spelling control.
In addition, the Predictive Text feature really is no good if you write messages in several languages or if you’re mixing expressions from languages in a single text.
It will for instance make English language words of your intended to be non-English message.
Needs some more thought. That’s always been a drawback of Nokia phones, though. Dating back from t9 Nokia was never able to make a phone which works well for people with varying language requirements.
On mainland Europe, that can be quite a big deal.
/Jakob
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