Features of Windows Phone 8 Chinese version leaked, showing signs of extensive localization

So... after the Surface frenzy, for October nosotros have another huge expectation left: Windows Phone 8. Microsoft is expected to fully unveil its next-gen smartphone OS at the very end of this month. But equally ever, things take started to leak ahead of the schedule, and source of the leak is Communist china.

Chinese tech site WPDang cited unnamed source who claimed to have tried on the Chinese version of Windows Phone 8, revealing some previously unannounced features of the OS. Almost of these are very Chinese-specific. To readers elsewhere, they might not mean much, but that Microsoft cares a lot about localization, far beyond the text translation level. Anyhow, the leaked features are:

• Improved lock screen notification. We know the screen will now show notifications from third-party apps. But aside from that, users volition be allowed to write up 3 lines of text to customize it.
• IE ten mobile volition come with an avant-garde "download" button, which volition download all files hyperlinked to a page, or "download" the entire web folio as a motion picture.
• Chinese social media Sina weibo will be integrated into the People Hub. Previously Microsoft removed all traces of services blocked by China's Great Firewall, leaving the People Hub practically useless. Glad to see compensations. And apparently when sending social updates through the Me Hub, users can now hands insert pictures, instead of needing to switch to the Motion-picture show Hub and sharing from there.
• Tellme vocalism command now comes with Chinese support. Curiously though, the service appears to piece of work fantastically in English, but the recognition rate of Chinese dictation is not and then adept.
• The Market place (Windows Phone Store?) volition back up AliPay online payment gateway. Simply picture AliPay as China's PayPal, only many times more popular. Credit bill of fare capable of making payments in US dollars isn't a household item in Communist china, and the vast majority of netizens take AliPay accounts. Information technology makes perfect sense to add this into the new OS.

That'south nearly it for now. Are you impressed by how far Microsoft would go to localize its adjacent mobile OS? Is Windows Phone in your country having any specific problems that need the same kind of attention and care? Permit us know in the comments.

Source: WPDang

Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/features-windows-phone-8-chinese-version-leaked-showing-signs-extensive-localization

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