I gave in last year and got a blackberry pearl, which I swore I would never do, but I was tired of having to spell everything out 3 taps at a time or rely on 'predictive text' which was never right any how.

On a whole texting with the pearl is much better, though given that there are still two letters to a key I still run into the occasional bad prediction. I'm sorry but telling someone to "duck off" just doesn't have the impact I'm going for.

There really should be a predict profanity first setting. Either that or this is the universe's way of telling me I need to clean up my potty mouth.