I have a Nokia Lumia 520 ,updated my phone to windows 8.1, checked the news that it on the 520, and it also says It comes in the united kingdom but still doesn't work even if I am in the UK.
See what happens if you change your region to the US. I did that on my 720 (which I had formerly) and I found Cortana available. Once it was on, I changed the region back to the UK and Cortana stayed in place...:>)
The advert says "Some phones" so my boy just bought a new 930 and it has Cortana.
The Cortana update as mentioned is 8.1 update 1 and I believe it has been released to all the carriers but they can take a lot of time to release this to us, so I still don't have it on my 1520 and I have been waiting patiently for months now.
This is outwith Microsoft's control.
There are ways around it but I personally prefer to wait patiently.
See what happens if you change your region to the US. I did that on my 720 (which I had formerly) and I found Cortana available. Once it was on, I changed the region back to the UK and Cortana stayed in place...:>)
I just tried that and Cortana was available, but when I reset all my regional settings back to the UK she disappeared, have you left anything as US like keyboard etc.
Played with it for a few minutes, sent an hilarious text to my daughter by using Cortana (I don't think she gets my accent), noticed neighbourhood was spelt wrong and my news was all US, so I have jumped back to the UK and will wait for her to come via the correct channel where hopefully my phones spelling is "Proper" English
Played with it for a few minutes, sent an hilarious text to my daughter by using Cortana (I don't think she gets my accent), noticed neighbourhood was spelt wrong and my news was all US, so I have jumped back to the UK and will wait for her to come via the correct channel where hopefully my phones spelling is "Proper" English
you don't like the murican freedom speak!?! but yea, I guess this is why localization is a thing.