May 10th, 2006 by B.
I’ve had my handy (cell phone) for 2 months now and have yet to personalize any of the messages because I can’t understand the damn prompts. Ditto for checking messages. I’ve got five and have NO idea how to listen to and/or erase them.
Former supermodel turned brain surgeon leaves behind successful career in America to try her hand at hausfraudom in the lovely Saxon city of Dresden, Germany.
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It took me a while, but I finally found someone at the phone store who helped me switch all the prompts on my phone to English. Somewhere inside that little contraption there’s a language selector; of course, I needed to understand the language to find it…
don’t kick yourself. three years + of ‘mo-bile’ phone ownership and I still have no message on it other than the automated voice reading off the numbers in german. I always know mom has called when I hear a message of silence and then a far off voice saying to my dad, “I don’t know, it’s saying something in German…” and then about 20 minutes of silence as she waits for the beep that already came…
i understand your dilemma, b. my keitai (fancy-schmancy japanese way of saying mobile) actually does have an english menu for most things - you prob have the same thing too, it’s just a bastard to find - but the internet, games, music player etc all have japanese menus so i can’t play with the good stuff. and like any good tokyo-ite, i am addicted to my phone. sigh. why do we do this ie live in lands where we don’t speak/read the language?