LUMIA phones have language Gaps
India is a country of 1250 million people. But the Microsoft make Windows phone
I have listed most of the useless languages for Indian costumers, which should not be added in the handsets to be sold out in India. The useless languages for Indian standard handsets are: Afrikans, Azarbycan dilli, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu(Brunei Darusalam), Bahasa Melayu(Malaysia), Catala, Cestina, dansk, Deutsch(Deutschland), Deutsch(Liechtenstein), Deutsch(luxemburg), Deutsch(Osterreich), Deutsch(Schweiz), eesti, Espanol(Argentina), Espanol (Chile), Espanol (Colombia), Espanol(Costa Rica), Espanol(Ecuador), Espanol(El Salovador), Espanol (Espana), Espanol(Estados Unidos), Espanol (Guatemala), Espanol(Handuras), Espanol (Mexico), Espanol (Nicaragua), Espanol (Panama), Espanol (Paraguay), Espanol (Peru), Espanol (Puerto Rico), Espanol (Republica Dominicana), Espanol (Uruguay), Espanol (Venezuela), euskara, Filipino, francais (Cameroun), francais (Canada), francais (Congo, RDC), francais (Cote d'lvoire), francais (France), francais (Haiti), francais (La Reunion), francais (Luxembourg), francais (Mali), francais(Maroc), francais (Principaute de monaco), francais (senegal), francais (Suisse), galego, Hausa, hrvatski (Bosna i hercegovina), hrvatski (Hrvatska), Italiano(Italia), Italiano (Swizzera), Latviesu, Lietuviu, magyar, Netherlands (Belgie), Netherlands (Netherland), norsk (bokmal), O'zbekcha, Polski, Portugues (Brasil), Portugues(Portugal), Romana (Moldova), Romana (Romania), shqip, slovencina, slovenski, srpski ( Bosna i hercegovina), srpski (crna Gora), srpski (Srbija), suomi, svenska (Finland), svenska (Sverige), Tieng Viet, Turkece and a number of Baltic, arabic, chinese, korean, and japanese languages.
Similarly under keyboard category, there are so many useless languages in Window Phones for Indian owners viz. Afrikans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijan - Latin, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cheinese (All formats), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium), Dutch (Netherlands), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (France), French (Switzerland), Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Kiswahili, Korean (All formats), Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (mexico), Spanish(Spain), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Uzbek - Latin, Vietnamese (all formats) .
I have requested the manufacturer Microsoft to add Indic languages and keyboards viz. 1.Odia, 2.Telugu, 3.Marathi, 4.Tamil, 5.Urdu, 6.Gujarati, 7.Kannada, 8.Malayalam, 9.Punjabi, 10.Assamese. Unless, you can not beat SAMSUNG in the field of smart phone sales and manufacturing for INDIA.
Bimal Prasad, bimal.odisha@yahoo.in
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