iPhone in China - What It Will Mean [View article]
Actually, the pinyin input system is much faster than writing out characters by hand. The problem, as the auther and several others have pointed out, is that not all Chinese know pinyin. So the inclusion of Chinese handwriting recognition makes the iPhone accessible to a larger portion of the mainland population, as well as to residents of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
@Jason: One other reason the price has gone up is that phones are currently shipping in the US with firmware 1.1.2, which to my knowledge cannot yet be unlocked through software. You can still use 1.1.2 phones on other networks using SIM cloning, but this is not an ideal solution. So right now your pre-1.1.2 iPhone is actually more desireable than the latest ones.
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