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Originally Posted by Sundog
Whether you or I use a spellchecker has nothing to do with anything. For the record, I never use one; I don't misspell words. The person asked why a pretty common feature he was used to on his Blackberry isn't on this great new phone. As I said before, "you don't need it, learn to type" simply isn't an acceptable answer. A silly omission? Yes, absolutely, on a phone trying to compete at this level.
Again, we're looking at this from different points of view. To someone who DOES need a certain common tool and is asking "why isn't it there", I can hardly imagine a more irritating answer than "you don't need it anyway, learn to type". I think both of us are lucky enough not to work in sales, but any salesman would see the point immediately.
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Common is debatable. There's no spellcheck on my T-Mobile Wing, not even in Word -- where you'd most expect it to be. Wasn't on any of the nokia's I've owned in the past, or the Motorola I chucked to get the Wing.
I think a lot of people get a phone they like, get used to the features on it, buy a new device, and then are shocked when their favorite features aren't there. They assume this is a mistake or a "silly omission". They assume this feature is "common" when in fact, it may not be. It's a phone, you should expect it to place calls and receive them, have a contact list, and text messaging application. Since this is a google phone, you should expect easy access to most of the popular google products..or special links in the browser to them.
Perhaps spellcheck should be common, but in my experience it isn't...and to be perfectly honest, if it is common,
it's not being used!
