New Motorola Smartphone uses Swedish technology FOMA M1000, the Smartphone recently launched by Motorola, uses Decuma for its Japanese handwriting recognition. The Swedish technology has previously been used in Sony's PDA series Clie with great success.
(Human-tech)
- 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, said Milos Djokovic, Zi Corporation's chief operating officer.
Japanese is one of the most complex writing systems in the world which makes handwriting recognition a real challenge. Decuma supports all Kanji characters, even if written in non-standard ways (Kanji are one of the five character sets used in modern Japanese writing systems).
The Motorola M1000 is a 3G Smartphone and available through the Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo. NTT has also been a partner in the development of the phone which features integrated WLAN and dual-mode GSM/GPRS.
Decuma was founded in 1999 based on research from Lunds University and is now a part of the Zi Corporation.
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