TOTALLY AGREE.
Even worse for Germans:
1) It is part of the German language to combine two words into one. For example, we write:
"Hauptbahnhof" (=central station) as one word instead of "Haupt Bahnhof" as two words. We do that we everything "Autoreifen" (=car wheel) instead of "Auto Reifen", "Nackenstütze" instead of "Nacken Stütze", etc.
Not combining them is incorrect in German.
But unfortunately, the T9 dictionary is not that big to have all these combined words, which is quite natural, because you can nearly combine all nouns and also some verbs, etc. So in the normal (old) T9, you would write "Nacken", then press the right key and then type "stütze". But this is not possible anymore. There is no normal way to type "Nackenstütze" with the new T9 other than adding it to the dictionary as a new word, which basically makes the T9 useless as there a millions of millions of possibilites to combine nouns. There is no dictionary anywhere that would hold all the combined nouns in German language, which actually would - mathematically seen - be nearly impossible.
2) In German language we write nouns in upper case. So we write "Parlament", "Präsident", "Militär", etc.
So, if you write m-i-l-i-t-ä-r for "Militär" the "super intelligent" (attention: irony) new T9 won't get you "Militär", because the T9 acts as a teacher now. You only get "Militär" if you start the first letter in uppercase, which adds another unnecessary keystroke: shift-m-i-l-i-t-ä-r. Thank you Nokia for training German du** as*** to write correct German finally. No way to ever write "militär", except if you - yesss! - add it as a new word to the dictionary.
First time with Nokia I really feel that I want to +#+234#fa!!!
§=$ the dam* developers of Nokia.
If there is no change back within the next to months (there is no way to downgrade to the prior firmware), I will sue Nokia for making my new phone unusable for me. We have good consumer protection here in Austria. The laws here will definitely will see this change as a defection of my phone (no matter what Nokia says in their terms and conditions) and will make Nokia repair my phone or cash back.
+++ I think Nokia lost a loyal customer (PS: already spoke with the customer support and they say this is the way the new T9 ist meant to work and - besides - were really unfriendly). +++
