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Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Zi Corp
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 September 2005
Handset integrates handwriting
recognition
Zi Corp's advanced handwriting recognition solution, Decuma Japanese, is embedded in the newly launched FOMA M1000 3G smartphone, now available through NTT DoCoMo.
Zi Corp's advanced handwriting recognition solution, Decuma Japanese, is embedded in the newly launched FOMA M1000 3G smartphone, now available through NTT DoCoMo Co-developed by NTT DoCoMo and Motorola, the FOMA M1000 is the world's first-ever WLAN-integrated W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS dual-mode smartphone, designed to attract today's increasingly mobile consumers who want connectivity on-the-go using one device
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The FOMA M1000 is manufactured by Motorola.
With its mixture of script forms, Japanese is one of the most complex writing systems in the world.
The innovative Decuma Japanese handwriting recognition solution provides FOMA M1000 smartphone owners with a new and powerful interface capability that will allow them to significantly increase writing speed.
"Zi is delighted that its Decuma Japanese handwriting recognition solution is a feature of the new FOMA M1000 smartphone", commented Milos Djokovic, Zi Corp's Chief Operating Officer.
"Until the introduction of the FOMA M1000, text entry in Japan normally required multiple taps on the phone's keypad - this will be a thing of the past thanks to Decuma Japanese".
"Decuma is already widely known in Japan through its embedded implementation on Sony Clie devices and this success has been expanded into mobile phones through our work with NTT DoCoMo and Motorola", added Djokovic.
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