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The English name of WeChat overseas is wechat. In order to enhance the recognition, this name is basically used for software names in other languages, except that other texts in the software are translated into local languages.

Just like Facebook, whether it is in Europe, America or other non-English speaking countries, the name Facebook is used to improve the recognition of the software. No matter how poor English is, most people can basically remember one or two English words.

The first beta version of WeChat has been registered in 36 countries and regions in 12 different languages, alone, without mainland China!

Apple did not enter China, and Google was also investigated and rectified due to pornographic issues at the beginning of the month. Androidmarket has not yet entered the country, and it is destined to be difficult to enter in the future. According to the plan, the domestic version of WeChat will be launched after Apple enters China in October. For Android, it will rely on 91 Assistant and built-in application stores of various manufacturers for distribution.

At 13:00 on the 15th, an hour has passed since the overseas version of WeChat logged in to the appstore and Androidmarket in many countries and regions. During this hour, Fang Zhe stayed in the sea and discussed with Zhou Feng and others about WeChat's global operation. My son, I also look at the operating tools from time to time, and look forward to receiving feedback from players.

However, because there is no promotion, all downloads and new additions rely on natural quantities. Now in many Western countries, it is midnight. So although the time has passed by one hour, the total number of registered people in all countries and regions in the world , It's just over a hundred.

In Tokyo, Japan, Tomoko, a female employee of the Japan Life Insurance Company, took advantage of the noon break to text and chat with her boyfriend. He and her boyfriend have been dating for more than four months. It is the honeymoon period that is like glue. The two people go from phone calls to text messages all day. Keep hitting, keep sending, wait for it to stick together every day.

Although the relationship is developing smoothly, there is one thing that annoys Tomoko very much, that is, the high telephone bill. Both of them are college students who have just graduated less than a year. They don’t have much savings, and the salary is not high. The insurance industry she works in is also a very frequent work in the SMS and phone call business. Even if the company has a certain amount of reimbursement system, she still has to pay a lot of money to charge her phone bills every month.

Although there is a free chat software on the computer, it is useless for someone like Tomoko who often runs business outside. The mobile phone she uses now is the iphone3g she bought under the recommendation of a colleague after joining this insurance company last year. .

Because of the signing of the purchase contract with the operator SoftBank, after two years of instalment, this mobile phone is only a little over 20,000 yen, which is less than 1,500 yuan. Although the monthly rental package is high, it is just suitable for her industry. , The company’s telephone fee subsidy can offset a large part of the monthly rent.

Since interacting with her boyfriend, she has been hoping to find a software on the appstore that can directly chat with her boyfriend using data. Her monthly rental package has a lot of free data, but she has no time for not playing games. She chasing the drama is useless at all.

In the past few months, she has also found several chat software, but without exception, these chat software only supports the iphone system, while his boyfriend uses an Android phone. Until today, his boyfriend sent her a message A new text message:

"Tomoko, I found a chat software called wechat on Androidmarket that supports Japanese. I found that it also seems to support iPhone. You have time to download it and have a look. If possible, we will use this software to chat in the future. Right!"

At this time, Tomoko was sitting in a fast food restaurant eating lunch and saw a text message sent by her boyfriend. She clicked on the appstore and searched for "wechat". As expected, this software seems to support chat between the iphone system and the Android system, and It's still in Japanese, which is much better than the chat software she found on the appstore.

Look at the size of the software, 8M, this package is too small, compared with the package size of other software, which is always 20 or 30 M, it saves data. Of course, Tomoko does not care about this very much. Her mobile phone package, There is 300M free traffic every month, she has been worried about nowhere to spend, so she directly clicked to download, and under the 3G network, the software was downloaded in less than a minute.

Sophon clicked on the green chat software icon and entered the registration page for the first login. Sophon found that this software was different from the troublesome chat software that it had seen before, such as using email to register accounts, or a long list of complicated digital accounts. This software supports direct registration of mobile phone numbers, which is a great boon for Sophon who has serious difficulties in remembering various accounts.

Without much hesitation, Tomoko entered the phone number and clicked the Send Verification Code button. After a few seconds, she filled in the verification code received by the mobile phone text message, and the registration was completed. Simple and convenient. This is the software for Tomoko The first impression left.

After entering the software, the interface popped up with several permission issues such as access to the mobile phone address book. Sophon, who has been an insurance company, has heightened his vigilance. Although Japan is a very trustworthy society, Japanese telecommunication frauds steal private data. Things like that happen from time to time.

She has a lot of customer information stored in her phone address book, and she is not at ease about this, so she directly chose to refuse. Therefore, whether it is the chat interface or the address book interface she enters later, it is very clean, except for an official account. I sent her the welcome information and privacy agreement manuals and the like, but nothing else.

Tomoko is thinking about texting her boyfriend and telling him that his account is his mobile phone number and let him add his friends. Who wants this newly registered chat software, the red circle unread 1 message appears directly in the upper right corner of the address book button As a reminder, Tomoko took a look after clicking on it, and was surprised to find that it was her boyfriend who applied to be his friend!

The reason why Tomoko is sure that this person is his boyfriend is because the avatar of the person who applied to add her friend is the photo of her boyfriend. The remarks of the application information also indicate his boyfriend’s name, and the way to add it is through mobile communication. Record search.

This is Tomoko. The first time he encountered this kind of chat software, he found friends who used the same chat software directly from the address book. Obviously, although she did not have the permission to open the address book, her nervous boyfriend opened it. With such doubts, Tomoko called her boyfriend and asked about it in detail.

After the two chatted, Sophon's doubts in his heart eased a lot. His boyfriend is an IT, and he knows more about these things than she knows. Since he said there is no problem, then there should be no problem!

Through friend application, the two people started to use the chat software to chat. From text to emoji to pictures, this chat software seems to support very well, especially the many interesting emoji expressions in it, so Tomoko likes it, it is not only compatible Now that the emojis supported by various domestic operators in Japan, and many new emojis have been added, the chat interaction between her and her boyfriend is many times stronger than the previous dry text messages.

"Yeah, it's almost 3 o'clock! It's over! I saw that the client was late in the afternoon, so I won't say anything, I will talk later! [Kiss]" Tomoko hurriedly picked up the phone after returning the message to her boyfriend Pocket, rushed out from the fast food restaurant.

The other Tomoko’s IT boyfriend was even more happy. He found that he has loved this chat software. The traffic he spent chatting with Tomoko for so long was only the price of the previous three text messages, and this chat software He also supports such a rich expression. Seeing Tomoko's last [kissing] expression, his mind seemed to be so cute and cute in front of him, Kawaii!