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Apple to include Chinese handwriting recognition in iPhone 2.0

Posted May 5th 2008 5:30PM by Cory Bohon
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone

One of our tipsters, Kenneth, pointed us to a Chinese web page (Google translation) showing what appears to be an iPhone running some sort of handwriting recognition geared especially for Chinese characters. According to the post, this is how Apple will integrate Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) input into the iPhone. As you write the character, you are presented with a list of the possible characters on the right side of the input pane.

According to MacRumors, Apple recently started hiring "Handwriting Recognition Engineers," could this mean the iPhone is coming to China soon? Only time will tell, but this should definitely give people something to hope for.


Thanks, Kenneth.
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Learn your ideograms with iChinese

Posted Feb 28th 2008 2:00PM by Erica Sadun
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone

Matthias Huber wrote in to tell us about his new iChinese system that helps you learn your characters. iChinese uses the iPhone's touch-based interface to teach users how to write the characters on-screen.

It's available by adding the http://ichinese.de/repo repository to Installer.app. I don't speak Chinese. I don't write chinese (although I'm very fond of chinese food). I wouldn't know an ideogram if I tripped on one, so if you give this a try and have an informed view on how useful it is, let us know in the comments.
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NYT on gray market iPhones

Posted Feb 19th 2008 10:00AM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Retail, Apple Financial, Apple, iPhone

The Gray Lady has published a piece examining the so-called "gray market" for iPhones in China -- legitimate products transferred through not-so-legitimate channels. Though we of course have no idea how prevalent this was before the rise of the 'Net, I have to think that the shrinking global neighborhood contributes to this a lot -- it's much easier to ask someone in another country to buy something for you when you talk to them every day on Twitter.

The NYT puts the number of non-AT&T iPhones at a whopping 1.4 million, but of course that includes unlocked phones all over the world, and people who are using iPhones without actually activating them. So we're not exactly sure of the number of iPhones floating around China (where Apple hasn't made a deal to provide official service yet). Analyst Charles Wolf says that Apple definitely enjoys listing the gray market iPhones in their sales numbers, but that the lack of an AT&T agreement with the phone sales undermines their contract plan.

However, he admits also that making the decision to sell the phones unlocked would have earned Apple more demand in the first place, so it's six in one, half-dozen in the other. There's no word on how the impending release of the SDK might affect the sale of phones for unlocking, either. But for now, it's clear that the gray market is a substantial and yet very much unknown quantity of Apple's iPhone business.
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Found Footage: A Chinese iPhone rip-off

Posted Jun 21st 2007 3:30PM by David Chartier
Filed under: Hardware, Software, Odds and ends, iPhone


Oh those endearing Chinese manufacturers - what would the electronics industry be without at least a few crappy knockoff products to keep original manufacturers on their toes? (Answer: companies like Apple could probably lay off a few lawyer infantries, but that's a whole 'nother conversation.) Engadget has caught footage of the 'tPhone', which sounds and looks like some sort of Windows Mobile (strangely, it uses a desktop Windows startup sound) device with heavily modified and/or skinned software. Does this look appealing? Remember: you don't have to be afraid to say 'no.'

Of course, Engadget touts the advantages of this device, namely a removable battery and microSD card slot. That said, eagle-eyed TUAW readers have also pointed out that the recently updated iPhone gallery reveals what could possibly be some sort of slot at the top of the iPhone, as exhibited in the gallery's first picture. Add that to all the interesting new iPhone tidbits we're digging up, and it looks like we might still be in for more discoveries (and possibly even official Apple announcements) before the iPhone actually lands next week.
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Foxconn sues reporter over iPod factory conditions story

Posted Aug 30th 2006 7:00AM by Scott McNulty
Filed under: iPod Family, Apple

Foxconn knows that when your image has been tarnished with, oh let's say, suspicion of abusive labor practices that there is only one way to win the world back to your side. Sue the two journalists who wrote the story for 500 times what they will make in their lives and freeze their assets. Doesn't it just make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?

Here's hoping that the Chinese government is sensible (it could happen, right?) and sides with the reporters who were just doing their jobs.
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Live Macworld coverage in Chinese

Posted Jan 7th 2006 10:30AM by C.K. Sample, III
Filed under: Macworld, WIN Business


Good news for any of our TUAW readers who prefer Chinese over English: our sibling-blog Chinese Engadget plans to live blog all the announcements at this year's Macworld in both simplified and traditional Chinese. Very cool.

I wish I knew some Chinese so that I could insert a very witty Chinese tag-line here.
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