NTT Com Develops Mobile Tools For Chinese Reading and Input
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| NTT Com has developed easy-to-use tools for mobile phone emailing
in Chinese. In December 2002, NTT Com launched the world's first mobile phone mailing service that converts Japanese characters (S-JIS font) into their simplified Chinese character equivalents (GB font), and vice versa, for sending and receiving mobile phone messages in Chinese. The service is specifically designed to enable messaging between Japan and China. Under the service, a user in Japan with a Japanese handset can effectively communicate by email, in Chinese, with a person in China who operates a PC which is GB font-enabled and connected to the Internet. Further to the above, NTT Com developed an advanced mobile phone mailing service in collaboration with Fujitsu in Japan in July 2003. The key capability of the new service is that it enables pinyin (romanized phonetic rendering of written Chinese) input to produce the desired character when composing a message in Chinese. By sidestepping the need for Japanese kana (phonetic alphabet) input, a Chinese user in Japan unfamiliar with Japanese kana readings can still easily compose a message in Chinese. NTT Com has also established a website (www.hellonavi.com) to provide access from both PCs and mobile phones to updated information on China, including local news, weather, entertainment, recipes and much more. |