The author failed to fully investigate input methods. The iPhone has handwriting input instead of a keyboard. The iPhone character matches what is handwritten a

The author failed to fully investigate input methods. The iPhone has handwriting input instead of a keyboard. The iPhone character matches what is handwritten and provides a pick list of potential matches. If you don't like the handwriting input style, there is a stroke entry method, that has no dependency on sound for input. So if I want to write 本, I can tap horizontal stroke, downstroke, slanted stroke and this character is 6th option in the pick list. Then there is the Canjie input method. Plus endless others.