Finally, Chinese handwriting recognition for iPhone!
If you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch user who would like to be able to input Chinese characters using handwriting recognition, today is your lucky day: 
A screenshot of me using the HWPen input method to write one of the more important Chinese phrases in my iPod Touch’s “Notes” application.
It would appear that someone has ported the excellent HanWang Chinese handwriting recognition engine to the iPhone. This software can also do English handwriting recognition, but that doesn’t work nearly as well as the Chinese recognition. Details on how to install and use the software can be found on Gizmodo.
A screenshot of me using the HWPen input method to write one of the more important Chinese phrases in my iPod Touch’s “Notes” application.
It would appear that someone has ported the excellent HanWang Chinese handwriting recognition engine to the iPhone. This software can also do English handwriting recognition, but that doesn’t work nearly as well as the Chinese recognition. Details on how to install and use the software can be found on Gizmodo.
I have this installed and living just fine side-by-side with a Chinese pinyin input method, and it’s very easy to switch between pinyin, handwriting recognition, and the standard English keyboard.
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April 25th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Do note: This input method does cause some problems. Installing HWPen will cause the wide keyboard that appears for text entry on web pages in landscape mode to malfunction. Since I never use the wide keyboard, I don’t much care, but you might.