In this opportunity, I would like to share my experience with Palm Centro smartphone device. Palm Centro has a very interesting feature, especially for anybody who is studying Chinese language.I just got my first Palm mobile phone a few weeks ago, i.e. Palm Centro. I try to get accustomed with the astonishing feature on it. Previously I always chose Nokia mobile device, because mostly Nokia device is compatible with Chinese character, reading and writing.
While trying all the Palm Centro feature, I got to know that we can activate the Chinese language on it, either for Simplified Chinese of Traditional Chinese. Only, the main problem is once we activate the Chinese language, all the display menu turns to Chinese. This is a problem for me as my Chinese reading is still poor.
Fortunately, a friend of mine who is an Palm expert told me that we can turn on the Chinese language feature while we can still keep all the display menu in English. Thanks to him, even though he does not understand Chinese but his knowledge of Palm OS is remarkable. Actually he is the one who introduce Palm Centro as well. Based on his advice, I try to find the related setting. Finally I got it.
Once we activate it, the feature is really very interesting. We can read Chinese, write Chinese with Pinyin input method or even with stylus hand writing. Last not least, we can also write Japanese Hiragana and Katakana.
Chinese setting of Palm Centro:
Push HOME button and choose / click Preference (Prefs)
Choose / Click CJK OS (Chinese Japanese Korean Operating Systems)
Check the ENABLE CJKOS
Choose “Chinese GB” or “Chinese GBK” for Simplified Chinese or "Chinese BIG5" for Traditional Chinese setting.
Choose the 2nd TAB (增强), then UNcheck the bottom box (中文化). This is to change the display menu to English
Choose the 3rd TAB (Input), then check the box Enable CJK Keyboard. This is for activating the Chinese input with Pinyin method.
Return to Preference menu, and choose PenP. This is to activate the stylus hand writing input method.
Check the following box: [常用字] activates stylus handwriting for the common Chinese character, [日文字] for Japanese Hiragana/Katakana and [英文字] for the English alphabet.
After finishing above set up, then we can start writing Chinese character with following method:
- Direct handwriting on the monitor
- Using Keyboard with Pinyin entry method. Push Menu and choose Keyboard.
Enjoy your time.....
