Chinese Language Features in
Nokia and Other Phones

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On previous pages I have described Chinese features in all the smartphones with which I have had personal experience, aside from a few Palm phones that are no longer sold or supported. I never got a chance to try the Palm Web OS phones before HP killed them off. Windows Phones? I don't know anyone using one, do you?

I recently looked into the Nokia S60 series after receiving an email asking for help, and found a sad situation even worse than Blackberry: a reflashing of the OS is required, and it seems very hard to find the software for that unless you're a developer.

There is at least one third-party Nokia S60 simplified Chinese character solution from Psyloc (see the screenshot at right), and it looks relatively easy to install.

There are also Q9 Chinese input method packages for every phone on the planet but I know very little about those. Last time I visited the Q9 website it was very unfriendly, as was their buy-before-you-try sales policy. I did download their software onto my Blackberry, but it caused a Java exception at every restart before I'd even paid and unlocked, so I've never even tried Q9.

Nokia is one of the dominant players in China and has launched many phones for that market, from simple youth market phones like the X5 (pictured above left) to localized versions of the high-end N95, and they of course come with Chinese features preinstalled.

That's about all I can tell you right now. As I get ahold of more phones or do more research I'll post what I think I know here as time allows.

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