Chinese 10 key input

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Chinese 10 key input

I heard that iPhone users who purchased their devices in china and Hong Kong have received a very nice Chinese input enhancement -- the ten key pinyin input method. It is really painful typing Chinese characters with a 26 key keyboard on the iPhone due to its small screen size and the lack of adequate input correction features. Apple May have not noticed that there are many Chinese users overseas who would like to have that feature very much. I am shocked Apple restricted this feature to Chinese and Hong Kong iPhones only. It is really not the Apple way to do this. And Apple would definitely make their loyal customers disappointed due to this erroneous, if not evil, decision. I am a Verizon customer so even if I bought an iPhone in China or Hong Kong I would not be able to use it on my carrier. Please be good and make this feature available on all iPhones, no matter what the purchase country is.

iPhone 5, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 19, 2013 2:09 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

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Sep 19, 2013 2:59 PM in response to .xn

I can't remember any time in the past when Apple has released software which differed like this between countries. Presumably it is some kind of error. Since these are only user/user forums, I recommend you repost your comments where Apple will see them, via

http://www.apple.com/feedback

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Answer 2

SW Lau

Level 1

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Sep 28, 2013 9:59 AM in response to .xn

I too am very dissapointed of Apple's such decision. I am a Chinese speaker based in Canada and despite that I like iDevices a lot, I've been tortured by the English keyboard when typing Chinese on my iPhone. I'm not even half fast as when I used my Nokia 6630 10 years ago. I have written a feedback on the above link. I hope that it's an error. But it's possible that Apple do this on purpose... if so that'd be even more dissapointing.

I really hope more people would talk about this so Apple could hear our voice...

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