[st_halcyon]

For over 10 years now, I have owned Nokia phones personally.  I may have been given a Samsung, a RIM BB, or a Motorola phone, but up till I owned the N95, I have loved and bragged to my other techno friends about the greatness of Nokia's predictive text.

Until I came across S60 5th Ed, both the 5800 and N97.  In the past, punctuation marks were predictable.  Let me rephrase that, VERY predictable.  In the order of the number of presses on the * key, I always get:

1 - .  (period)

2 - ,  (comma)

3 - -  (dash)

4 - ?  (question mark)

5 - !  (exclamation mark)

So forth and on.  But with S60 5th Ed, it seems like the punctuation marks are no longer predictive!  Sometimes the first punctuation mark is a question mark, and sometimes it is a period.  It's like picking a number out of the lotto balls!

Can anyone explain what happened?  Was their a design change?  Is it based on some logic that is yet to be logical in my mind?  I thought it was based on possible grammatical use of the sentence, but it can't possibly be, because text messages simply don't follow normal grammatical rules, much less spelling rules.  If anyone can englighten me on this, it would be greatly appreciated.