Thursday, February 28, 2008

Software for Switching Windows Mobile Professional Japanese Interface to English

I was surprised to hear that you can now get software to switch the interface language of a Windows Mobile Professional device from Japanese to English. I saw a demonstration of the software and it worked well.

This is great news for anyone living in Japan who can't read Japanese but who wanted a Windows Mobile Professional smart phone.

The software is available from the CF Company web site, which ironically is only in Japanese. It costs 2,100 yen for a download version and 2,415 yen on CD. The software is designed for Windows Mobile 5, so Windows Mobile 6 users may be out of luck for now.

The software is made by Mobem but they don't seem to have any information about this particular product on their web site. Perhaps if there is enough demand they will release this so send CF Company and/or Mobem an message if you would like to see an English language purchase page.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Only up to Windows Mobile 5... seems a bit suspicious to me as it reminds me of the work that Asukal did on the XDA-Dev Forums for some devices up to AKU 2.x. I really hope that Mobem didn't steal his code and made it into a commercial product. Would be a shame if they did!