It seems as though Nokia is adding a small box above words you are typing out to enhance our predictive text T9 experience. Yesterday I was reading a review of the brand new Nokia E71 by Boy Genious Report and they showed the screenshot below.

photo by Boy Genius Report

Here's how it works, quoted from the article:

"Something also interesting is the inclusion of predictive text on here. You might be thinking why you’d ever need predictive text when you’ve got a QWERTY keyboard, but it actually helps more than it gets in the way. It sort of works like how the iPhone does. If you’re typing fast and accidentally misspell a word but keep typing and hit the space bar, it will auto correct and suggest that word for you. It can also save you a good amount of typing time as it will suggest words for you when you are halfway through them and a simple press of the space bar selects the suggested word and keeps you moving."

I think this is a great move by Nokia & Symbian, I've always missed this sort of feature that is found on Blackberries and some Sony Ericsson devices.

Implemented In New Nokia N95-4 Firmware
If you look at post number five of this topic at Howard Forums about the new N95-4 firmware (which came out just today), it seems as though Nokia may have implemented this. The user njgill05 says "there's a new little fast lookup window for text input that finds what you're looking for as you type it in." Looks as though this false afterall. This is really something they need to implement. Bummer.

I can't wait for them to add this to the next firmware update of the Nokia N82 and hopefully all high end Nokia phones. Wonder what took them so long in the first place.

Do you think this is a welcome addition, or something that will add clutter and is not needed?

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