Lumia 710, 800 & 900 All Coming to Lebanon Next Week!
Nokia Lebanons Twitter just announced something pretty interesting, the three big Lumias will be available in Lebanon stores starting next week, this might not sound like a big deal but this is the first time the Lumia range has become available in the Middle East since its launch; mainly due to the fact that Arabic is not supported as a system language on WP (but has been confirmed on WP8).
Asking on twitter it turns out these WP7.5 devices don’t have full Arabic support but do have support for Arabic in text messages, Calendar, Lockscreen notifications, Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter and a bunch of other apps; unfortuantely the browser and Keyboard don’t have Arabic support (browser will display Arabic but letters are not joined). Keep in mind that all these devices will be upgrade-able to WP7.8 which brings the new WP8 start screen as well as some other features (possibly).
Interesting that they didn’t wait out for the WP8 launch as it’s rumored to be less than a month away; if the Lumia range was going to launch without Arabic support they might as well have launched it 6 months ago no?
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- How to Type in Arabic on WP7.5/Mango : My Nokia Blog | August 23, 2012
So, Q3 seeing even more availability just as expected. The global ramp-up is getting more complete…
Maybe this one has to do with the pace Marketplace (and perhaps some locally relevant apps) is spreading, instead of language?
Also, production/distribution capacity may have taken time to ramp-up.
I wonder why the three Lumias come to Lebanon at the same time. Therefore people will only buy one Lumia. The time should be separated so that one consumer may be willing to buy two or more Lumias.
no one would buy more than one lumia, the 3 give almost the same experience/features.
this way they can cover multiple price points, thus increasing potential of people buying.
let me get this straight, all apps have Unicode support except the browser + no arabic text input ?
what’s the point? isn’t that already the case on WP7? why didn’t they release the phones earlier?
It means Arabic (and Persian) are now available in Mango (and Tango) , earlier than Windows Phone 8.
Err no it does not, read the story…
It’s far from complete, WP8 will bring the solid support, that’s already been well explained countless times now.
when lumia 900 to india
Nice to hear that its coming to Lebanon.
Great windows phones by Nokia..