Phone Feature Request (Dictionary Function)
When I use a device more and more frequently, I begin to see/find more and more faults in it. I find with time I start to question the why’s and how’s of the device instead of just “using” the device. The T9 dictionary on my phone has been a cause of years of frustrating SMSes. T9/Phones simply do not understand the words the end users enter. Phone Users Do Not enter full words, they do cut down and out letters, wherever possible. Using a T9 dictionary is counter-intuitive for such communications devices.
If I write a SMS and use a word not in dictionary, I expect my phone to ADD it automatically, don’t make me do it. If this requires an older, unused word to be deleted from RAM, so be it. I don’t use it, it’s of no use to me.
If I write a SMS and use the word “of” more often then the word “me”, the default should become “me” not “of”.
I understand there would need to be a logger/analyzer of some kind behind each sent SMS. In 2006, phones run CPU’s that are the equivalent of Intel 486’s. This task is hardly a radical proposal.
It would also be nice to see optional locale based dictionaries. Something that understands Australian vernacular in Australia, Sydney Street names, would be useful. This could be facilitated with check boxes or search tags, importable and exportable based on the user experience.
A younger audience if using a dictionary may want it to understand 1337speak, and may check that in. Older users may want to see extended dictionaries, instead of basic cut down monosyllabic words. The memory and CPU exists in phones for this to be possible. We have all these advanced ‘features’ on phones, great for generating new sales, yet device stability and core functionality used by all users is still lacking.
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