Apple buys rights to HWPen from Hanwang
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We had previously heard that Apple was working on Chinese handwriting recognition for iPhone 2.0. Now we learn that Apple bought (rights to) the technology for this specialized iPhone character recognition application from Hanwang.
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Gee … do ya think Apple might be ready to roll in China and Japan? Besides Chinese, the HWPen iPhone ap also provides support for the Japanese character set. More > HERE
See also previous iPhonAsia posts on topic > HERE
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[...] both simplified and traditional Chinese. Apple’s iPhone in China will also support Chinese character recognition whereby users draw Chinese characters with predictive [...]
Is hwpen available (in English) for iphone 3.o? I don’t like using a keyboard.