Japanese IME on iPod Touch

Apple have posted an iPod Touch features guide a few days ago, and I finally had a chance to read it.

As I wrote and posted photos regarding iPhone’s Asian language supports, I was wondering about future multi-language support on iPhone, but now I know that iPod Touch will feature Japanese IME before iPhone does!

According to the manual, iPod touch provides keyboards in 14 different languages, and supports the following keyboard formats:

• QWERTY
• QWERTZ
• AZERTY
• QZERTY
• Japanese IME

And now, curious enough, I obtained these visual evidences:

1. Twitter message by Toshiyuki Masui, an engineer behind the Japanese IME. (Fact: Sony Ericsson’s Japanese input system called POBox, had been developed by his team).
2. Unofficial photos