Smartphone to "dumb" phone

[OakLeaf]

(And a helluva lot easier to edit w/o a touchscreen IMNSHO)

All touch screens are definitely NOT created equal.

Not that that's a defining feature in this discussion anyway (I didn't even know there were "dumb" phones with physical keyboards! and obviously plenty of smartphones do have them) - but virtual keyboards come in different sizes, some of them rotate to landscape mode and some of them don't, some of them only rotate within particular apps. Some let you access numbers and common symbols (apostrophe, dash, ampersand) from the main screen, others require you to scroll through multiple screens.

The predictive spelling on my HTC phones (both old and new) is really topnotch. Its first choice is right about 80% of the time ... my choice is one of the options onscreen about 95% of the time. It's uncommon that I actually wind up having to type an entire word, and the nice thing about predictive spelling vs. autocorrect is that it offers several options and lets me choose, rather than automatically entering a word that might or might not be what I meant.

I can seriously type faster and more accurately on my phone than I can on my iPad. I forgot to mention that when I use my iPad as my only computer on weekend trips, I also have a full sized Bluetooth keyboard, because the iOS virtual keyboard is basically useless.