Finally hubby bought his new phone couple of weeks ago. After months of research he finally settled with Windows Lumia 950 XL. It took a while to be available in New Zealand maybe because the market is very small or some other strategy but I must say some genuine windows fans also live another side of the world.
Not many resellers are available here so we chose the nearest one with reasonable price. We were not surprised why it was cheaper than others as we presumed that the product will be imported from China. It took 7 working days for the phone to arrive in the country.
Configuration was bit of a challenge because everything was setup in Chinese language – phone plus the user guide. Only solution was to google and see if someone has any guidance or you have to figure out own your own.
How to change Lumia 950 XL from Chinese to English?
Swipe from top down, The one to the very right is All Settings (or bottom right when you have expanded, it’s the gear icon) ==> All settings with gear icon
- Tap the gear icon
- Tap the Settings menu with the clock and letter A in it, which is 6th one from top
- Tap the second from top. You’ll see Chinese in Chinese, tap the line with the + sign to add more languages.
- Now you should see a list with the language you want. You cannot remove the Chinese yet, but you will be able to after reboot.
- Under the line with the + sign is “restart phone” which may still be in Chinese. Tap that and your phone should restart with the correct language.
As windows operating system you should not be surprised that the product will be without any bugs.
Some of the issues with the phone so far:
- During updates gives false storage indication that it is low on storage
- Phone heating problem
- Need to hook to charger most of the time
- Iris scan setup is just a nightmare have to reset and restart so many times to get it working.
- Cortana is not working in New Zealand
After all this, I think hubby is pretty satisfied with his new phone. Still waiting for screen protector and case.
