Nuance Announces Predictive T9 Search Engine

you are right davidemm this not new. it was done a dozen yrs. ago.it was central to the newton operating system that was in the apple messagepad. the search was focused on the task not the application. it's unfortunate the messagepad was so ahead of it's time. not only was the search feature already there but the handwriting recognition(95% accurate) still has no equal.

I can already do this on my Samsung u540. You just type numbers on the home screen and press the up key to search contacts using t9 and the down key to search menus/settings. It works really well and doesn't use an application. You just have to enable "quick search" under "phone settings." Is what's new about this just that it can search for more?