> you'll have to give me a full size keyboard as a replacement

It seems to me, speed is only an issue for long texts, and why would people type long texts (or lots of small ones) on a phone? Can't that wait until they're in front of a proper computer?

> If you want me to disable this

I don't want you, or anyone, to do anything ;-)

I simply find it strange that people rely on autocorrect, and then send a second message immediately afterwards, to say correctly what autocorrect got wrong. It seems it would be faster, and better, to get it right the first time than the current sequence of "type, send, proofread, retype, resend".