Sunday, September 23, 2012

Which is the best mobile phone to write in the Arabic language?

Currently, the most powerful Mobil device that support writing in the Arabic language is the iPhone and its adequate iOS. Also, all iOS devices from apple have no problems to write in the Arabic language, other competitor like Samsung have difficulty to support it.

Writing an email (iPhone) in the arabic language
using the iOS from apple
Apple supports native languages. However, no dictionary is always incorporated in the iOS like for the Arabic language. Also, there is no adaptation of the way how the user writes.
For example, when you write always “do” in the English language, the iOS should propose this word when you write “d” since it’s mostly used. Techniques to support this kind of learning can be done using the Hidden-Markovian-Model (HMM) for phrases or words. And, this is actually a minus point to a company that claims elegance.

Also, there is no additional popup screen (or similar to the notification screen but on the sides) where you can have some rapid shortcuts, where you can press to write a significant word or a phrase. Like you always do when you write.

Writing for example “I would like” in the English language is time consuming. However, when you have a popup screen where you can push to write for example “would” instantly, it will boost up the way of writing on such devices. This will even contribute to help writers write more rapidly, and to concentrate more on the content then on the process of writing.

This concept of push-button-to-write-a-word is a little bit highlighted in the Arabic keyboard that I developed myself, and that you can find following this post : Virtual Arabic Keyboard.

That's it for me, thanks for reading ;)

Writing an arabic poem using the iPhone (iOS)


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