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Advanced MultiPlay
Chinese - Easy-to-Use Mobile Texting In Simplified
and Traditional Chinese |
Los Angeles, CA (USA)
and Taipei ¡V Dec. 12, 2007 ¡X Keytouch
Inc., a technology licensing and product development
company for mobile text input solutions, today
announced the MultiPlay
Chinese input solution, which handset makers are
integrating into their smart handheld devices
with 12-keypad or QWERTY-keyboards, or even hybrid-style
mobile devices, using various operating systems.
An innovative ¡§software keyboard¡¨ solution fast
gaining popularity, MultiPlay
Chinese input is aimed specifically at the market
for smart handheld devices in Asia Pacific. It
supports input formats like Pinyin, Stroke, Changjie,
and Zhu Yin. MultiPlay Chinese offers an intuitive
user interface with advanced predictive text,
personalized user database, and auto-learning
system. It even enables PC-like functionality
for easy and fast entry of text, symbols and numbers
on a regular mobile phone keypad. Considering
regional culture, and to help mobile users text
in Chinese easily and quickly, the new features
of MultiPlay Chinese include:
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Human-based User Interface |
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Dynamic OSD design
¡V The user can choose to show/hide the OSD,
and it automatically shifts position to avoid
obscuring text while typing. Custom configurations
of OSD can be provided. |
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Fuzzy tolerance ¡V
To solve fuzzy pronunciation, the system automatically
shows the correct vowel or sound. |
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Mixed input - With
the intuitive and practical UI design and
OSD, users don¡¦t need to switch modes to text
mixed Chinese/English. It increases the texting
speed, and is especially suited to young people¡¦s
language habits. |
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Fix-any - Users can
fix the first sound or fix any sound to reduce
ambiguity and get the word or phrase they
want to type immediately. |
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Super-functional Smart Input
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Next word/phrase prediction
¡V When users type the first word, the system
predicts the next word or phrase they want,
and users can just push Enter to select/confirm
the word or phrase, thus dramatically reducing
the number of keystrokes needed. |
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Simplified spelling
¡V Especially useful for Pinyin. Users can
enter only the first vowel or sound of each
word, and MultiPlay will auto-complete the
phrase. |
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Full sentence input
¡V users could type a full sentence, and then
go back to correct only the words or phrases
they need to. |
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Personalized Editing and Learning
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PC-style Editing ¡V
users can enjoy advanced functions like Select,
Cut, Copy and Paste for quickly and efficiently
editing messages/emails on smart handheld
devices. |
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Phrase Learning ¡V
When users text a person¡¦s name, place name
or any special terms, the system will learn
it automatically and save it to the UDB (User
Database). |
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¡§According to Portio Research¡¦s
report, the outlook for text messaging in the
Asia-Pacific region remains bright, and SMS revenue
in the region will increase to US$22.7 billion
in 2012. Most mobile users in the greater China
market are very SMS-savvy. However, they still
want a better, more efficient Chinese text input
method¡¨, said by Leon Chang, CEO of Keytouch Inc.
¡§MultiPlay Chinese offers exactly that - it is
simply the fastest, most convenient way to input
double-byte characters on a mobile device.¡¨
MultiPlay Chinese-enabled handsets are currently
shipping to consumers in Taiwan and Hong Kong,
on devices such as the HTC Touch Dual, Dopod C720w,
C730 and C500. MultiPlay Chinese is set to be
integrated on several more smart handheld devices
in the near future for the great China markets.
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About Keytouch |
| Keytouch Inc. is a technology licensing
& product development company on Mobile Input solutions.
The company is headquartered in California, USA
and conducts worldwide business development based
on a patented data-entry technology. The breakthrough
technology addresses the data entry problem experienced
in the fast growing mobile phone market. The software
keyboard solution enables full PC text & functionality
entries on a regular mobile phone keypad with Predictive
Text capability. The cost-effective algorithm could
be implemented in any current product within a 3-months
lead-time. |
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