What would Chinese input look like on an iPhone? Now you know {Engadget Mobile}

Jul 16th 2007 3:38PM you don't even need Mandarin or Cantonese characters--they also have pinyin, the alphabetized version of their words. All they would need would be our alphabet and / - \ U symbols to put over certain letters to show pronounciation--it would be much easier than searching through hundreds of thousands of characters. There are so many characters that the majority of people, even upper class, well educated people, don't know most of the characters, only a small percentage, maybe like 10-15% of them. Pinyin would be MUCH easier to do in this case. They all know it anyway, they start our learning pinyin before the characters.