[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richardbroder:
Ok, funny thing here... I actually got curious about the pt x br Portuguese thing and went to check my Qwerty-XT9, since I never managed to notice pt words in my dictionary... my phone´s dictionary has "correção", not "correcção", tried some other words, such as "contato" (br = contato, pt = contacto)... my dictionary has... "contato". I tried some other word I heard these days in a car forum, in Portugal, instead of "embreagem", they call it "embreiagem"... well, guess what, my dictionary actually has "embreagem", yes, I was even surprised it did have that word, it does, and it´s the br variant.

I´m a bit short in ideas for trying words that differ from pt to br, but as far as my testing goes, I´m pretty certain my keyboard is fully br-portuguese enabled. That´s why I never have had any complaints about it....

As far as my firmware setup goes, well, I´m currently using Froyo´s latest JPK leak, with all of it´s respective files (that is JPK modem, JPK CSC and JPK PDA). I was using JPC earlier (again, with all of its files) and before JPC I was using JP5, and I´ve never noticed any pt words in any of them...

I don´t know how this actually happens, since I´ve never done any mod nor did I install any different files to try to have br instead of pt dictionary, it´s stock JPK international leak, but it´s pretty obvious for me that the Brazilian words ARE there, and somehow my phone does know it has to use br words, not pt words....... my phone is a International, standard and unbranded i9000...

About Swype, I have been playing around with it. Having dedicated some minutes of my day for the "learning-curve", I actually managed to get some decent results with Swype. However, for me, it´s still not as fast as qwerty-T9 - for instance, try spelling a word that has "a", and then "p" (like apartamento)... in swype you have to slide your finger all the way from "a" to "p", this "sliding" process actually takes some tens of seconds that you wouldn´t loose in qwerty... in qwerty, I´ll have my left thumb in top of the "a" key and my right thumb in top of the "p" key, the "press a, then p, each with one thumb" just feels much faster then sliding your finger from "a" to "p", get it? And the best part is that with XT9 you can actually type VERY fast. Without XT9 that would be impossible since you would misspell a LOT of words while typing that fast, but XT9 just seems to do miracles in "guessing" which words you want to type, and it´s pretty good in learning new words too... and one thing that´s actually very interesting... XT9 works so good for me, the portrait (small keyboard) is actually FASTER then the landscape mode. And why´s that? When using a phone, unlike having a full-sized keyboard (in which you use all of your hand´s fingers), you only use your both thumbs to type. Well, at least I use both thumbs, and I´ve never heard of/seen anyone that´s actually capable of using full-hands to type in a phone ;) So what happens is that in portrait mode the keyboard is smaller, that means that words will be within faster reach (less physical traveling distance for your thumbs), and that´s FASTER. In landscape mode the keys are bigger and have bigger spaces in between them, that means you type with higher accuracy, but your thumbs have to "travel" more and it actually takes longer to type, in portrait you lose a lot of the accuracy, but that´s where XT9 comes in and does it´s miracle - the end result is that XT9 portrait, at least for me, has been faster then any other possible setting I´ve tried. For instance, swype should also be faster in portrait then in landscape, due to less finger "traveling" distances....