10. An electronic equipment comprising: a memory, wherein the memory includes a local predictive text dictionary and a predictive text application program; an input device for allowing an associated user to enter user information for composition of a message to be transmitted to and read by a recipient; a processor that executes the predictive text application program within the memory, the predictive text application program when executed causing the electronic equipment to: request local dictionary information from the local predictive text dictionary, wherein the request includes at least a portion of the user information received from the input device; request remote dictionary information related to at least a portion of the user information from an associated remote server, wherein the request for remote dictionary information is transmitted automatically upon expiration of a predetermined period of time in response to the received one or more symbols from the input device; receive local dictionary information and remote dictionary information, wherein the received local dictionary information and the remote dictionary information includes predictive text that begins with the user information received from the input device; and output the predictive text in a user-sensible format, wherein the predictive text from the local dictionary information is output in priority before the predictive text received from the remote dictionary information.
10. An electronic equipment comprising: a memory, wherein the memory includes a local predictive text dictionary and a predictive text application program; an input device for allowing an associated user to enter user information for composition of a message to be transmitted to and read by a recipient; a processor that executes the predictive text application program within the memory, the predictive text application program when executed causing the electronic equipment to: request local dictionary information from the local predictive text dictionary, wherein the request includes at least a portion of the user information received from the input device; request remote dictionary information related to at least a portion of the user information from an associated remote server, wherein the request for remote dictionary information is transmitted automatically upon expiration of a predetermined period of time in response to the received one or more symbols from the input device; receive local dictionary information and remote dictionary information, wherein the received local dictionary information and the remote dictionary information includes predictive text that begins with the user information received from the input device; and output the predictive text in a user-sensible format, wherein the predictive text from the local dictionary information is output in priority before the predictive text received from the remote dictionary information. 15. The electronic equipment of claim 10 , wherein the application program allows selection of at least one of the remote dictionary information or the local dictionary information by the user input device.