Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

The increasing use of mobile devices for written communication has made mobile typing an important aspect of our daily life. However, typing on a touch keyboard can be painfully slow and filled with ...

Some keyboard apps for smartphones send input to the cloud to provide predictive text conversion. A study by Citizen Lab, a research institute at the University of Toronto, on Chinese keyboard apps ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. TouchPal Keyboard, a mobile text input solution by ...

Heads and shoulders better than anything that Windows or Linux have ever come up with. It all has to do with the magic trackpad and the sheer size of it. For Japanese, hand-scrawling is always going ...

Bertel is a Linux user who likes budget smartphones more than flagships, uses a custom ROM, and gets his apps from F-Droid. When he isn't writing short stories for Android Police, you might find him ...

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 ...

OS X has a nice pinyin input system for Simplified Chinese. However, the pinyin input system for Traditional Chinese is really really bad. So in 10.3, I've had to use Hanin, which is okay...but you ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. The increasing use of mobile devices for written ...