Auto-word completion is something I've not been comfortable with, attempts to use it have only slowed me down. I've gotten to a reasonable comfortability adn familiarity with my cell phone that lets me go rather briskly with two-thumb-typing, and I can do a slow amount of typing 'blind', one handed, while driving. What slows me more than anything else SMS-wise is punctuation, capitalization, and stubborn insistence on 'to', 'thanks', 'later' and such. I'm very comfortable with acronyms, and occasionally typo-ridden, but something in my soul recoils against 'Fine thx how r u', even if it would be 30% faster. I just wish the asterisk didn't take 6 key presses to access, as that's a need for *emphasis* or *emoting*.

--Chiaroscuro