Steve said iPhone will come to Asia in 2008. To come to Asia, iPhone needs to be able to input Chinese and more. In the previous iPhone 2.0 beta 3 5A240d, there is still no Chinese input method available. But, things are changed in the latest 5A258f beta firmware, Apple finally added the Chinese input support.

For the traditional Chinese, you can input using hand writing. The writing area is pretty big. For simplified Chinese, you can choose to input using Pinyin or handwriting. Input Japanese is also possible in this latest beta. For those people in Asia, they do not only looking for complete Chinese support, what they need is the 3G version with speedy mobile internet. (I think all the iPhone users are looking forward to 3G iPhone.)

[via WRETCH] (Chinese content)