in combination with other previous added characters forming a word or a part of a word are compared in 204 with characters words phrases abbreviations slang etc stored in a predictive text dictionary 206 if one or several complete or partial matches between an entered word s 202 and words in the dictionary 206 are detected they are made available e g displayed on the screen of the communication apparatus as a list of suggestions to the user 208 if several matches are found they are displayed in the suggestions list the user is then able to choose any of the available words from the displayed suggestions list using the navigation means 104 mentioned in conjunction with fig1 the character input process is continued 202 regardless of if the user chooses a word from the displayed list or continues to input characters the input process continuous until an u2018 end character u2019 is detected 212 or the character input is terminated by the user fig3 illustrates an example of a common display view in a handheld communication apparatus 300 running a predictive text system comprising a general status indication section 302 a softkey bar 306 and a general display area 304 the general status indication section 302 can for example include symbols for battery status reception quality speaker on off present mode clock time etc the status indication section is not in any way limited to only include these symbols thus other symbols in any shape form or color can occur the softkey bar 306 situated at the bottom of the display view is operable using the navigation means 104 mentioned in conjunction with fig1 the functions of.