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Prediction vs Spell Correction

Hi all. I'm loving this phone. My first smart phone and it has been immensely helpful in organizing my life in the three weeks I've had it.

My question is this: what exactly does the Spell Correction feature do? I realized today that I had it disabled all this time. I tried typing with Spell Correction enabled but haven't noticed any difference. The user manual explains the settings like this:

Prediction Select to enable the word prediction feature which
provides a list of possible words that reflect the characters of
the keys you have tapped as well as characters of nearby keys.

Spell correction
Select to correct typographical errors
by selecting from a list of possible words that reflect the
characters of the keys you have tapped as well as characters
of nearby keys.


...but the keyboard seems to me to function exactly the same with or without spell correction enabled. Any ideas?
 
All I know for SURE, is that I didn't care for the prediction feature, so I turned it off. Too often it 'forced' me to use a word that it predicted, rather than the word I really wanted.
I do see however that spell checking is greyed out if prediction is not checked. So they must be VERY closely related if you can't change one without first turning on the other.
 
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