Last week, Hanwang.com.cn announced a new unofficial third-party application designed for iPhone handwriting recognition and conversion into typed text. The “HWPen,” was developed to allow Chinese character input on the iPhone, but works equally well with Latin characters.

As we’ve suggested in previous posts, to take advantage of the iPhone’s tremendous potential as an educational tool, students and teachers must be able to quickly and efficiently share ideas via digital discourse, which means (or meant) mastering the device’s relatively small touch-screen type pad. Perhaps the HWPen will provide a handy alternative for speedier digital communication

In order to install the HWPen, you must enable third-party apps on the iPhone, then use Installer.app to add the source: iphonecake.com/src/all.

For detailed installation instructions, visit our friends at iPhone Atlas.