My biggest pet peeves with the T9 typing system:
- When I type 63, I want the word ‘me’ to come up first, not ‘of’.
- It’s funny how T9 doesn’t recognize the most common used texting abbreviations. When I press the 8 key, ‘u’ should show up, because it is more likely to be used by itself than ‘t’. And if you push the next key, ‘v’ comes up? You have to push next twice to get to ‘u’. Who made this behavior standard?
- Same thing with the 9 key, give me a ‘y’ instead of an ‘x’.
- Why don’t common contractions show up unless you put in an apostrophe? I want to be able to type ‘isnt’ just like that but instead I get ‘grou’. Hello, T9 developers, ‘grou’ isn’t a word, give me a better choice. I get ‘theses’ instead of ‘theres’ and ‘warmt’ instead of ‘wasnt’ as well.
This list is by no means complete; its just the annoyances I came up with off the top of my head. My biggest question is if T9 can learn new words by typing in abc mode, than why can’t it become smarter about which words I use most often? If I end up with ‘me’ more often than ‘of’, then give me ‘me’ next time. That’s what Quicksilver does.
If I had a phone that ran Linux, I would so hack T9.




Agreed! That me/of problem, just like home/good and lots of others, is a daily annoyance. Hack it!