Korean mobile software Diotek has released its handwriting recognition software called 'DioPen 7.0' for Windows Mobile smartphones and Pocket PCs which may be useful for the growing number of Korean students studying and living abroad and non-Koreans studying the Korean language.

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DioPen 7.0 recognizes handwritten Korean, English cursive and alpha-numeric, provides software keyboards in the package. It also has Korean and English word recommending function that suggests words so sentences can be completed more quickly.

DioPen also offers Korean input and output functions for writing emails, taking memos, sending text messages and reading Korean documents on devices not running a Korean operating system.

Diopen has been pre-loaded to some touchscreen mobile phones and smartphones from Samsung, LG and HTC.