March 9, 2006
Vodafone Offers Japanese to Chinese Translation
Vodafone Japan has added a new function to its MMS service for 3G handsets which displays mails written in foreign languages, reports Cellular News.
"Starting April 3, customers will be able to send mails in Japanese to China Mobile and China Unicom customers, and also receive mails written in Chinese from customers using these same operators.
With the current Global MMS service, mails received from customers using operators abroad may not display properly if they include characters that are not half-width alphanumeric English characters. This happens because Vodafone K.K. 3G handsets in general do not support languages outside Japanese and English.
The new function, however, automatically converts text portions into images, which then get attached to incoming or outgoing mails."
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