SMS issue may throw me off the phone :(

[dejo]

I know I know!!!!

Please stop texting while driving before you kill somebody!

Like in this case:
Cyclist hit by text messaging teen dies

 

[Esben]

Other language input

As a non native english speaker I'm a bit concerned by the predictive input which will "correct" my spelling. What if I want to write a text message in my native language. At least that's a problem with my mac. I have to add on a unofficial spell checker to avoid getting an entirely red document, unless I turn off the spell checker, in which case the predictive input idea sort of dissapears.

I have a hard time imagining Apple going all in to include every single language on the iPhone, so does that mean no texting for everybody else than native english (and maybe spanish and french) speakers?

That would severely cut down on the ease-of-use that the iPhone is touted for.

 

[MacBoobsPro]

I really like the iPhone, but I text a lot, and I can't imagine it working too well with that phone, can you? There'd be no feedback. I'm glad that Apple is being our saviour with the whole "These other phones have buttons that can't change" dilemma but they can provide tactile feedback for texting, which is handy. I think the SMS issue is a bigger one that the buttons being unchangeable.

Is anyone else concerned?

You could always record your message and then email it all within iPhone.

 

[whooleytoo]

Any decent phone should have multi-lingual support. I txt in Spanish quite a bit, and without being able to switch between input languages, it'd be really tedious (not to mention the fact that my Spanish spelling is otherwise quite poor!).

Considering the way the spelling correction appears to work, it'd be a pretty horrible oversight if it didn't support multiple languages (or at the very least offer the ability to turn it off).

 

[Esben]

Any decent phone should have multi-lingual support. I txt in Spanish quite a bit, and without being able to switch between input languages, it'd be really tedious (not to mention the fact that my Spanish spelling is otherwise quite poor!).

Considering the way the spelling correction appears to work, it'd be a pretty horrible oversight if it didn't support multiple languages (or at the very least offer the ability to turn it off).

My point exactly, but seeing as they still haven't included more languages in the full version of Mac OS X I would be surprised to see support for my language (Danish – about 7 million speakers worldwide).

I believe you will be able to turn off the predictive input, but then you loose the whole "multi-touch screen is much better for input than fixed keypad" advantage as I see it.

Besides I'm still rather confused why people are so annoyed by normal phone keypads for text input. Don't any of you people use your phones built in "predictive input" for texting? It works great on my SE walkman phone and I type faster on my phone than on my mac.

 

[aricher]

My point exactly, but seeing as they still haven't included more languages in the full version of Mac OS X I would be surprised to see support for my language (Danish – about 7 million speakers worldwide).

??? Have you looked at the "international" preference pane lately? There are well over 60+ language options for OS X. I wouldn't worry about Danish being one of the iPhone languages when they release it in Europe. If anything I might worryabout Devangari, Gurmukhi or Kalaallisut not being included before Danish.

 

[Esben]

My point exactly, but seeing as they still haven't included more languages in the full version of Mac OS X I would be surprised to see support for my language (Danish – about 7 million speakers worldwide).

??? Have you looked at the "international" preference pane lately? There are well over 60+ language options for OS X. I wouldn't worry about Danish being one of the iPhone languages when they release it in Europe. If anything I might worryabout Devangari, Gurmukhi or Kalaallisut not being included before Danish.

Thanks for the suggestion but I do know that I can change language to Danish. That just still doesn't provide me with a Danish spell checker, which was the whole point, as I (most likely) won't be able to use the predictive input of the iPhone in Danish.

 

[Troyte83]

i love the way the keyboard just pops up on the screen and you can type messages almost like a computer. i think that it is one of the better aspects of the iphone.