Brainstorm readers may remember that Caitríona Osborne recently pointed out the unique features of the Chinese writing system which have led it to be considered difficult to learn. One aspect of ...

One of the cooler iPhone applications that has appeared in the past few months is HWPen, which allows users to input characters using a finger, rather than typing on the soft keyboard. When the ...

Chinese developer iPhone Cake has added handwriting recognition to the iPhone. HWPen works in both Chinese and Latin alphabets, and it works pretty well. The native application (for jailbroken iPhones ...

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 ...

Google today launched handwriting input for Google Translate. The feature, which currently support 45 languages, lets you translate a written expression even if you don’t know how to type it out on a ...

Google Research today launched its latest project: Google Handwriting Input. Besides their voice and favorite keyboards, Android users using Android 4.0.3 and up can now also simply use good ...

The iPad is a multilingual tablet computer that supports Wi-Fi connectivity and optional 3G network connection capability. With the iPad, you can change the default system language using the Settings ...

With BlackBerry 10 now pretty much rolled out to every continent in the world this latest video from BlackBerry goes beyond what I expected to see quite so soon. The good folk of China can (or will) ...

Google Translate has introduced handwriting input on its website, which lets users draw in text that may be a challenge to type out on some keyboards. “Handwriting input lets you translate a written ...

Google's email serviceGmailAnd office softwareGoogle DocsWith handwriting input of characters enabled by Google, Google announced in the blog. Languages that support handwriting input include English, ...

Some days, you may just be in the mood to write the old-fashioned way on your smartphone. Google Handwriting Input lets you opt to swap in a touchscreen canvas instead of your keyboard so you can ...