chamcham
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Registered: 2005-11-11
Posts: 1444
Has anyone here tried either of these phones to review/study cards on kanji.koohii.com?
I'm looking to get either of these phones and RevTK will be the site that I'll spend the most time on..... :-p
nonpoint
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From: KON?
Registered: 2009-07-14
Posts: 168
Theres anki for the iphone too, but it is Ankimini. Also, the iphone has this impressive japanese input method http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb_vCbs7s9U
I dont know if android can do this right now, but it _probably_ will in the future.
I don't want to ever give any money to the Apple corporation though, so I'm definitely going with an android phone. If you're buying right now, you should probably buy an iPhone because you can set it up to be a good study device, but thats just my personal opinion. If you can wait, like me (several months!), then the real iphone rivaling android-based phones will get released.
dvrvm
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Registered: 2009-06-25
Posts: 3
Japanese input works great on Android with OpenWnn IME, it's comparable to the one seen on the iPhone, at least judging from the youtube vid, except that you convert to Kanji for every word on its own, instead of typing the whole sentence and converting it as a whole. There also is a native Japanese IME out there, but it can be installed only on rooted phones. While my phone is rooted, I'm pretty happy with OpenWnn and don't need the native one (iWnnIME).
What I do have installed, though, is the Chinese IME (HTC_CIME): it offers kanji handwriting recognition, which is very useful for Kanji I don't know yet or haven't learned a reading for. Needs a rooted phone. What I don't like is that I lose a few seconds each time I switch input methods, which I need to do quite often.
For Kanji SRSing I use a selfmade PHP tool. This page seems to work too, I use it only for looking up stories though.
chamcham
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Registered: 2005-11-11
Posts: 1444
For Japanese input on Android, I recommend "Simeji". I use it on my myTouch3G phone.
It does the same thing as that the iphone IME shown in the youtube video. Simeji actually has 3 different modes for inputting Japanese.
After installing Simeji, just hold your finger down over a text input box, a popup menu will appear, choose "input method" and that select "Simeji keyboard".
If you need to switch back, old your finger down over a text input box, choose "input method" and that select "Android keyboard".
Also, Simeji is FREE.
Last edited by chamcham (2009 September 01, 8:45 am)
