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Wednesday
Feb032010

I'm not O'Neil

I love Android's very smart predictive text feature, which makes the virtual keyboards on the Droid smartphone a joy to use. With one exception: "I'm" not "O'Neil."

When I type "I'm", the predictive text thinks I mean "O'Neil," which I don't. Either it's a bug or Google's data mining has determined there are many people out there who are typing "O'Neil" when they mean "I'm".

Whatever the reason, I've had to backtrack and erase "O'Neil" dozens of times after inadvertently selecting that option. What I need is Droid to really be a "smart" phone and learn from my behavior or for Google to issue a patch.

I didn't have much experience with predictive text before the Droid. Is this a common problem with other smartphones with the predictive-text feature?