Chinese HWR for X10 Mini Pro?

[#1]

I was wondering if there is any way for me to get the Chinese input method that the Asian U20i has onto my U20a?

[sushidushi]

Not sure what the U20a is, not therefore if this helps, but have you tried going to a text input box and long-pressing on the box till the Input Method box appears?  My big X10 in Canada includes a Chinese keyboard, which includes handwriting recognition.  There are also various apps that have that feature.  Try a search on the Android market, if you have it.  There's one called HanWriting IME (Beta) that looks like it might be worth a try.  I find that, even with the big screen, it can be difficult with the words with lots of strokes, as we can't use a stylus on the phone, but see what you think, if you can get one of these...

[#3]

What's a U20i, or U20a?

Anyway, I have the version that will allow me to type Englsih, Chinese, Chinese HWR, Japanese and Korean. However, I remember I had to set it up the first time I used the phone. You might want to try setting your locale and your region functions to get those keyboards.

[sushidushi]

I know that, to get the HanWriting IME as an option, after downloading it you have to Settings - locale and text - and then enable HanWriting IME by ticking the box by its name, or it won't show up when you long-press the text input box.  I just did it, but it had a scary message about possibly being able to collect passwords and credit card numbers and so on.  I didn't enable it.  But if the U20a is an X10, it might well not be necessary anyway...

[#5]

U20 is X10 mini pro, I got tired of typing the whole thing on other forums.

[sushidushi]

Ah, OK.  Let us know if any of the suggestions help, and are what you want to know...

[#7]

err.... thanks.... but.... if X10 mini pro is u20, then why is it listed as a x-series phone?!

[#8]

I don't really know why. The X10 mini is actually the E10 and apparently the X8 is actually the E15. You'd have to ask SE.

[#9]

I ended up downloading Google's own Pinyin IME (since I suck at writing characters anyway). Thanks, though.

On a side note, I asked SE this same question on Twitter and they linked to this thread.

[#10]

Wow.... that's really messed up! Does it mean now, that the X10 series is actually a placeholder for a bunch of different products clumped together?