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17th June 2004 - Zi Corporation, in Asian predictive
text software market has unveiled Chinese, Hindi, and
Thai language solutions at this week’s CommunicAsia
exhibition in Singapore.
Fast-growing Zi, which has more than one hundred mobile
handset manufacturing partners and nearly five hundred
phones on the market using its technology, has now developed
its text software in more than 40 languages.
“Texting is a world-wide phenomenon where only
language is a barrier to continual expansion,”
said Jacques LaPointe, director of product management
for Zi Corporation.
“Today’s language demonstrations involve
some of the world’s largest markets and, as well
as this, we have new features such as dual language
messaging, next word prediction, phrase prediction and
lingo entry and prediction, which are designed to improve
the user experience.
“Zi is all about making text entry truly flexible
and personalized to each individual user.”
Zi’s solutions are available in 70 language interfaces
to address the texting needs of the world’s population
in over 130 countries. Zi has further extended its language
capabilities with the introduction of dual language
messaging. Dual language capabilities allow users to
compose a message in a combination of two languages
using simultaneous text entry and prediction. For example,
a user would be able to input text in two different
languages without the need to change menus. With dual
language messaging, a user in the Philippines can compose
a message in Tagalog; compose the next message in English;
or compose a single message with a mixture of the languages,
the latter a common activity amongst text messaging
users in the Philippines. This same example is also
applicable for users in other Asian countries, including
Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
"Predictive text continues to be a core requirement
of every handset manufacturer and network operator.
Our partnering business philosophy combined with our
responsive customer support and product modularity are
key factors to our success in collaborating with manufacturers
and operators to provide the most user-friendly products
for today and tomorrow's mobile phone subscribers,"
said Mr. LaPointe.
Zi Corporation is a truly global company, which in
2003 took the mobile market by storm. On average, a
new handset model incorporating Zi’s technology
was released every two days in both 2002 and 2003. With
over 100 handset manufacturing customers, eZiText™
is utilized by the majority of Chinese domestic handset
manufacturers including Amoi, Capitel, Haier, Lenovo,
Ningbo Bird, Putian, and TCL; by Korean manufacturers
such as LG Electronics, Samsung, SK Teletech, and VK
Corporation; and by Japanese manufacturers such as Fujitsu,
Kyocera, and Sanyo for their export market needs.
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