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Nokia Smart Phone Recognizes Handwriting

Posted by timothy on from the needs-to-recognize-snacks dept.

San writes "Nokia on Tuesday announced it plans to start selling a new smart phone capable of handwriting recognition. The 7710 model features a touch screen, pen input, a digital camera, an Internet browser, a radio, video playback and streaming and recording capabilities, the company said."

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  1. Jot? by Skuto · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmm, I guess they don't count Jot as handwriting, which is at least on the Sony Ericssons for a while. It's close enough that it tends to "just work". And it's probably more reliable than handwriting recognition. I mean, even as a human I can't decode most peoples handwriting :)

    That said, being a true IT person, I got a P910i with a keyboard, since I can't remember how handwriting was supposed to work, anyway...

  2. the phone is not that new by geighaus · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was supposed to come out last summer, but since the phone was so ugly, they decided to postpone it. Now they changed the form factor a bit and from the picture they have in the article, it looks better. I wonder if they've got rid of side-talking. Nice features though: big screen with VGA resolution, Opera browser, video and audio playback, text processing and spreadsheets (not sure about the latter though), touch screen etc etc Cannot say that hand writing is any better than just "pressing" the buttons on the screen, as you have to write only a single letter at one time and pattern recoginition is far from perfect. But it is a nice feature nonetheless.

    1. Re:the phone is not that new by tao · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually, this is not really a postponed version of the same phone; the phone (the 7700 if I remember correctly) you're refering was indeed cancelled (and for good reasons too...), but this model (7710) was initially developed as a follow-up. In fact, the 7700 was until very recently available in the list of phones on Nokias website as "Technology preview. Not for sale" or similar.

  3. More information and a nice presentation by Big+Nothing · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...including the usual FUD can be found at the Nokia homepage.

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  4. Why is this news? by diablobsb · · Score: 2, Informative

    My p800 have been doing that for quite a while now :/ ...

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  5. This is the third model that does it. by vjouppi · · Score: 3, Informative

    The asian models 6108 and 3108 also have handwriting recognition, and they have been out for quite some time now.

    It recognises latin alphabet too, but naturally it's primary use is for chinese letters, etc.

    Much slower than tapping the keys, I can tell you.. I tried one back when they were new. :-)

    http://www.nokia-asia.com/nokia/0,,61400,00.html

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