Nope.  Been using T9 for years.  Love it, I don’t think I could figure out how to text without it.  It made everything a lot faster.  Here’s a funny article on predictive text: http://www.internetadsales.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6641

so for the longest time i couldn’t figure out this whole T9 predictive text thing that my friends were doing till i came around to this site http://www.textfast.t9.com and it TOTALLY laid it out for me. i don’t think i could ever go back to ABC format texting now. does anyone still use the old ABC way?