WeChat for Windows Phone: NZ Users’ China Backup Plan
The awkward truth about WeChat for Windows Phone If you are a Kiwi heading from Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch to China with an old Windows Phone in your bag, here is the straight-up answer: do not make that handset your only plan for WeChat. For years, Windows Phone had a small but loyal crowd. Fair enough too — the tiled interface was tidy, the cameras on some Lumia models punched above their weight, and a phone that still turns on can feel like a perfectly good phone. But China is one of those places where “perfectly good” can become “not quite enough” rather quickly. WeChat is woven into everyday routines: keeping in touch with classmates, receiving a landlord’s message, finding a study group, getting event details, scanning a code at a café, or seeing a flatmate’s last-minute note about dinner. ...