8 Phones Displayed

[palandri]

Here's what I am seeing when I was window shopping (It's Sunday and everything is closed on Sunday in France) 8 phones on display, 2 are WP8's. A HTC and a Nokia. That about what I am seeing at each carrier.

 

[Daniel Ratcliffe]

They have the Z10 there. Nice!

 

[stmav]

No iphone. Interesting. How was your flight?

 

[Laura Knotek]

That's interesting that the HTC uses the same display screen as in the US (all English, Seattle location, F for temperature), the Samsungs/LGs/BB use a mixture of French/English on the display.

I would've expected to see all French on the displays, especially on the BB, since many Canadians prefer French, especially in Quebec. I'd expect a Canadian company would get French language better than Finnish, Korean or Taiwanese companies.

I wonder if "Play Store" on Androids is always going to show up in English, no matter what country/language settings are used.

 

[palandri]

No iphone. Interesting. How was your flight?

Very smooth. Customs in France is real strict right now due to them being in Mali right now. Took us a little over an hour and a half to get through Customs.

 

[palandri]

That's interesting that the HTC uses the same display screen as in the US (all English, Seattle location, F for temperature), the Samsungs/LGs/BB use a mixture of French/English on the display.

I would've expected to see all French on the displays, especially on the BB, since many Canadians prefer French, especially in Quebec. I'd expect a Canadian company would get French language better than Finnish, Korean or Taiwanese companies.

I wonder if "Play Store" on Androids is always going to show up in English, no matter what country/language settings are used.

I am using my Nexus 4, and the Play Store is in French.

 

[Dave Blake]

It's nice to see WP's on display like that. Are you seeing very many on the streets in use?

 

[palandri]

It's nice to see WP's on display like that. Are you seeing very many on the streets in use?

You see a few. No more than I saw when WP7's first came out. I see more Samsung phones than iPhones, when a few years ago iPhone was the phone you saw most often.

 

[palandri]

Full page 820 ad in today's paper.