![]() I’d love to see google port their Japanese IME for Windows (works almost exactly like and almost as well as the Japanese support in Windows XP) to Android. I haven’t tried Simeji to compare, but I can’t imagine it would be any worse. If you compare it to the keyboard IMEs in Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac, iPhone, and other phones in Japan, it’s primitive and tremendously frustrating to use. So a lot of the time you have to enter words one kanji at a time–which is a pain. The dictionary it uses is too small, so much of the time when you enter your hiragana and tap the “convert to kanji” button, it can’t–it can’t even put the word in the list of suggestions. That’s not bad–the system has been around forever and can work well. It’s a standard keyboard IME–you enter a word in hiragana via either a QWERTY romaji virtual keyboard or a mobile-phone style keybad, tap a button, and Android puts its best guess at what kanji you mean into the text–tap it again and it shows a list of possible candidates to choose from. I’ve used the built-in Japanese support on the Japanese version of Android–it’s terrible. Posted in Japanese | 36 Comments » leave a response | trackback The iPhone gets this right Google should too. But the native Android Japanese input keyboard should be made available to all Android phones. It is great that someone has created this app because there is a need for it. Simeji works-for the most part-and has lots of configuration options. Between Android phones you can always use Google Talk, but there is no guarantee that the person you are messaging has notifications turned on for Talk, whereas with text messages that is almost guaranteed. But from Android to Android I expect better. I can understand an older phone having problems receiving Japanese text messages. I don’t know if this is a problem with Sprint’s network or American text messages in general, but it is a problem. You can input Japanese and sent text messages you just can’t read any messages you receive. It is always running in the background ready to be toggled to, but it never feels like it is a natural part of the phone’s OS.Īnother drawback to using Japanese input on Android is that it does not work with text messages. There is also some lag when typing at times. Since it is not a native part of the OS, it takes time to load every time you toggle the keyboard. The biggest drawback to Simeji is that it is an app. I prefer the vibrate on touch option to keep the Japanese input mode feel similar to the default English keyboard on the HTC Hero. ![]() Under the phone settings you can configure the keyboard to your preferences. It includes multiple Japanese input modes, including the standard keitai-style mode. Simeji is a Japanese input app that lets you switch input modes on the fly between English and Japanese. Until there is a native Japanese keyboard input, the only usable option is the Simeji Japanese keyboard input. I have not been able to find any information about when non-Japanese Android phones will be able to use the Japanese keyboard input. The keyboard has been in the SDK, but it has not appeared on any handsets in the U.S. With the release of the first Google Android phones in Japan from NTT Docomo, there are finally phones with Google’s native Japanese keyboard input. A Star is Born – Introducing Honyaku Star Japanese/English Dictionary.Japanese Input on Ubuntu Linux 12.10 Quantal Quetzal.Japanese Input on Linux Mint 14 Nadia (MATE).Japanese Input on Fedora 18 Linux Spherical Cow.Unlocking Secured Password Protected PDF Files.Japanese Input on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.Japanese Input on Ubuntu Linux 13.04 Raring Ringtail.Japanese Input on Linux Mint 15 Olivia (Cinnamon).Japanese Input on Fedora 19 Schrödinger’s Cat.Japanese Input on Ubuntu Linux 13.10 Saucy Salamander.Japanese Input on openSUSE Linux 13.1 (KDE).Japanese Input on Linux Mint 16 Petra (Cinnamon).Japanese Input on Fedora 20 Linux Heisenbug.Japanese Input on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr.Japanese Input on Linux Mint 17 Qiana (Cinnamon).Japanese Input on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn.Japanese Input on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet.Japanese Input on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus.
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