Misspelling is faster on the iPhone

Apparently none of you have typed on a Sidekick, which has auto-correct *and* shortcuts. I've got mine set up to handle things like apostrophes by replacing words, i.e. you have a space/end of sentence before and after the letter sequence, so typing:

Welre going 2 teh show n mpls, itls got 2b good.

With its corrections and my shortcuts, this works out as:

We're going to the show in Minneapolis, it's got to be good.

I would really appreciated it if I could turn spell check / word corrections off.

I tend to write messages in either English or Hungarian, and even though I have the ability to easily write words that contain accents, the spell checker always wants to change them to English, quite annoying after a while.

It would be great if we could buy dictionary / keyboard packs on the App Store

The problem is with the Italian suggestions, which are often mixed with Portuguese words, or with wrong accent marks, or with non-existent words, or simply by wrong words. I wonder who compiled the suggestions dictionary...

Also, I haven't found a decent way to report these huge mistakes to Apple. Does anyone know?

In general, I think the auto correction feature is really a great thing and works most of the time, but if you want to write in german, it sometimes puts ä, ö, ü into words and creates words that don`t even exist. What`s even more annoying, is that it often puts in the corrected words with a capital letter even if those words don`t exist with a capital letter.

You guys are nuts. I love the keyboard, and rarely have to ignore a auto-completed word. And when I do, it learns for next time! I am typing incredibly quickly on my iPhone.

I.....hate... typing... **Shit**... it always corrects it to **Shot**... i mean, doesn't it know shits a word?

The autocorrect is awesome. I can pretty much just mash my hand in the general direction of the keys I want to hit, and it works. Especially handy for someone with big clumsy fingers.

re:carrying this over into normal typing, that reminds me of how i still handwrite t's and f's in Palm graffiti sometimes.

I'm swedish, and since the virtual keyboard doesn't have the å ä ö-keys I need this feature is really useful. Instead of holding the a a o- keys and then select å, ä or ö I can simply write the characters a, a or o and the iPhone figures out what word I meant to write. The only problem is when I try to write english words in the middle of a swedish sentence. Oh well, nothing is perfect :)

Try typing in spanish. That is hard.