Japanese Input Keyboards on iPhone 2.0

Wheres the English handwriting support?

no english HWR yet...

arn

no english HWR yet...

arn

May be just me, but i am quite surprised. What is there intention with focusing on chinese support?

May be just me, but i am quite surprised. What is there intention with focusing on chinese support?

Who knows, there are only over a Billion Chinese, its such a small market why bother. Besides, Chinese counterfeiting is a huge operation, why go after and legitimize that market when you could ignore Chinese speaking people all together. Or instead of focussing on the less then 30 characters for Romance languages it seems foolish to try and make a keyboard for the hundreds of characters in in Asian languages that would fit on an iPhone screen. Its your call.

Who knows, there are only over a Billion Chinese, its such a small market why bother. Besides, Chinese counterfeiting is a huge operation, why go after and legitimize that market when you could ignore Chinese speaking people all together. Or instead of focussing on the less then 30 characters for Romance languages it seems foolish to try and make a keyboard for the hundreds of characters in in Asian languages that would fit on an iPhone screen. Its your call.

Dude, was the sarcasm necessary? You coulda just made your point. I hadn't thoguht of the character problem. But hey, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. :rolleyes:

Well, if there is HWR for Chinese, I'm sure it's just a matter of time before it's added for Japanese, too. That would be very, very nice!!

I just had a japanese friend try this on my phone and she LOVED it. The romanji support in leopard and on the iPhone is very very good; and the kana keyboard on the iphone is cool as all hell. She described it as "very clever".

When I informed her that there was a 3g version coming out "soon" she got very excited :)

In any case, chinese HWR support indicates more languages are likely coming soon. Coolness indeed.

i thought this was about japanese? all the comments except one are about chinese. am i reading upside down?

I just had a japanese friend try this on my phone and she LOVED it. The romanji support in leopard and on the iPhone is very very good; and the kana keyboard on the iphone is cool as all hell. She described it as "very clever".

Yeah, this is GREAT news for a Japanese release - the existing entry method SUCKS big time, incredibly slow and cumbersome (mainly due to the ridiculously tiny conversion selection area) ... These new entry systems are light years ahead of what are currently available and will really help to guarantee a successful iPhone launch here in Japan. Kudos, Apple!

This has irked me for some time, as there have been many uninformed people stating that it would be impossible to display all the chinese characters needed to write chinese on the iphone's screen -- So a note to the uninformed:

There are multiple ways to input chinese characters with the roman alphabet. One such method is used in the Japanese language, which uses approximately 1500 kanji (chinese characters) in daily life in addition to its native script. Obviously, 1500 chinese characters aren't going to fit on the iphone's screen, but there's no need to do so as you can sound out the word and spell it in roman letters - then hit the spacebar (or some equivalent) and the software will display all the most common combinations of different characters and words.

Now you know.;)