yesterday i was talking with a friend who works for Cingular and he told me he heard they were thinking of dropping T9 predictive text from the options on the next generation of cell phones because the company thinks that people don't actually use T9. i use T9 all the time, so i'd prefer it didn't get dropped. he mentioned that increasing the page hits for the T9 site would be an effective way to show Cingular that people still use T9... so if you use T9 or would like to keep it on the next generation of cells go to the site:

http://www.textfast.t9.com/index1.htm

hopefully we can show them we like our T9 just the way it is... =\