Remember that cool handwriting recognition software that I mentioned some time ago? Well, it seems that the HWPen application that was developed by Hanwang.com.cn has been acquired by Apple for use in the next major firmware release for the iPhone - the iPhone OS 2.0 firmware. Hanwang claims that Apple has acquired their handwriting recognition software. [...]

With more mobile subscribers than there are people living in the US, China's mobile market is a force to be reckoned with. So, it makes sense that Apple is still pursuing the Chinese market for their heralded iPhone. The newest revelation gleaned from the iPhone 2.0 OS points toward some handwriting recognition support for its Chinese-speaking [...]

With the iPhone's on-screen keyboard providing more than enough speed and convenience for everyday text input, why would anyone want to bring handwriting recognition to the iPhone? Actually, HWPen was developed by Hanwang.com.cn in an effort to make Chinese text entry a bit easier (what with all those thousands of characters in the Chinese language). [...]