HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD PROVIDING DISAMBIGUATION OF AN AMBIGUOUS INPUT AND SELECTIVELY PROVIDING PREDICTION OF FUTURE CHARACTERS

摘要

A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and isenabled with disambiguation software and prediction software. In response toanambiguous input, the system provides one or more disambiguated interpretationsof theambiguous input. In some circumstances, the system can additionally provideone or morecompletions, i.e., predictions of future characters. However, in othercircumstances theoutputting of completions of an ambiguous input can be suppressed in order toavoiddistracting the user and to provide more meaningful results to the user.