“Apple has quietly included handwriting recognition for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) into the latest iPhone Firmware 2.0 beta. When you select Chinese input, you are given the option to use handwriting recognition allowing you to draw characters on the screen with your finger. As you write the character, four possibilities appear on the right side of the screen,” Arnold Kim reports for Mac Rumors.
“There is no support for English at this time,” Kim reports.
Full article, with screenshots and link to more, here.
Could finger painting be far behind?
瓦特对错 ?
Cool! Now I can order Chinese food on my iPhone…
That’s pretty cool. Changes and upgrades to the iPhone will open up many possibilities for language translators. I’ll bet Rosetta Stone Ltd. is working on a few with the SDK.
And could behind painting be four fingered?
Cool, I almost jailbreaked my iPhone, just to add this capability. All of the unlocked and jailbroken iPhones in China have chinese handwriting recognition, already.
I cant wait to see what comes out from the developers this june… this should flip the industry upside down (again) and prove the point that a nokia music store or a blackberry flip phone cant hold a candle to the iPhone… the only competition that can be justified for the iphone is a company with a mature platform.. and winblows mobile just aint cutting it.
Finally, a true use for Inkwell. I promise you, if this works with Chinese symbols, then it will work for English. This would be a great alternative to using the keyboard for quick text things. China and Japan will love it because of symbols that represent words. Finger stylus for text messaging, anyone. Blackberry, read and weep.
Hey, something from the Newton made it into the iPhone. yah!
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Hey, Van Vaals just cussed us out in Chinese!!
قتل خمسة أشخاص على الأقل وجرح عدد آخر عندما أطلقت القوات التابعة للحكومة الصومالية الانتقالية الرصاص تجاه تظاهرة حاشدة لمحتجين على ارتفاع أسعار السلع الغذائية والتضخم في العاصمة مقديشو، وفق ما ذكره شهود عيان ومصادر طبية.
Мы терпели все это время, и решили опять бастовать. Вы знаете, что мы хотели бастовать еще 27 ноября? Мы совершили ошибку: когда мы судились и дошли до Верховного суда, нам сказали: ребята, вашу забабастовку не могут признать незаконной, ведь вы не бастовали еще. Нам сказали: имеете полное право бастовать. Но мы тогда пожалели Путина, Медведева, всю эту… А сейчас мы решили взять и сделать это внезапно.
Junaliikenne pääradalla on saatu jälleen käyntiin Riihimäen tulipalon jälkeen. Palon vuoksi junien kokoonpanoissa.
And will this work in landscape mode??
Peter: I agree.
And I need to download some Kung Pao Chicken 2.0.
With the accelerometer, you should be able to erase the iPhone screen just like an Etch-A-Sketch.
@助反 (Helps instead) is this your name?
What does the olympic flame have to do with this thread?
Mekka-lekka hi mekka hiney ho!
Mekka-lekka hi mekka chahney ho!
Mola-mekka chala mekka hola hayla hey!
I would think that a Klingon translator can’t be far behind.
@TexasAg03,
Thank you Jambi.
Now what’cha gonna do with those new hands?
Fingerpaint!!
Vrlo zanimljivo; kad sam video tekst na kineskom, ruskom, arapskom i finskom, pomislio sam da je neko na duhovit način pokušao da na svom maternjem jeziku doda svoj komentar na članak. Kratak skok na sajt za prevod (našeg omiljenog pretraživača) i shvatim da tekstovi nemaju nikakve veze sa člankom (vesti o olimpijskoj baklji, nasilju na bliskom istoku, štrajku u Rusiji…). Ako već pišete na svom maternjem jeziku, potrudite se bar da to dodate svoj komentar, a ne da jednostavno kopirate tuđ tekst.
Pitam se da li će novi telefon imati podršku za srpski jezik?
And in the end, I wonder how many here understood that! Oh, and by the way, as for the contributions in Arabic, Chinese and Russian, it would have been much more meaningful if you had written something related to the text here, rather than copy/pasting news…
As they say in France, if you can’t beat’em, appease them.
@Predrag
Looks like you got your panties all up in a bunch here today. LOL!
Shaw Wu should be happy.
Ampar, And could behind painting be four fingered?
People paint their behinds? One finger would do.
hope they add Japanese support.
“One finger would do.”
Yeah, but four is a party.
but the iPhone is not released in China….
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@ Predrag: “as for the contributions in Arabic, Chinese and Russian, it would have been much more meaningful if you had written something related to the text here, rather than copy/pasting news…”
LMAO!!!! I love teh intarwebs and the *really* smart people that pop up on it every now and then.
Ouga chaka
ouga ouga ouga chaka…
Wandering Songstress
[Lust Caution – Tang Wei]
天涯呀海角
觅呀觅知音
小妹妹唱歌
郎奏琴
郎呀咱们俩是一条心
爱呀爱呀郎呀
咱们俩是一条心
家山呀北望
泪呀泪沾襟
小妹妹想郎
直到今
郎呀患难之交恩爱深
爱呀爱呀郎呀
患难之交恩爱深
(instrumental)
人生呀
谁不惜呀惜青春
小妹妹似线郎似针
郎呀穿在一起不离分
爱呀爱呀郎呀
穿在一起不离分
Tugged at my heartstrings, that one… and they didn’t sub it.
So looking forward to Japanese handwriting recognition.
I know this is pretty well known, but..
Actually writing chinese characters with your finger is NOT efficient. Nokia has already devised a great way (read: looooooong ago) which millions of Chinese use every day.. it is based on the 5 strokes and the correct stroke order.
The above is just goofy.