China Mobile users, especially foreigners, will never have to worry that their non-English-speaking friends cannot read English messages, or vice versa, thanks to a service called SMSOK that the company launched on Friday.
“You type in English, send to 366321. In no time, an accurate Chinese version of the sentence will show up on the receiver’s phone,” Jin Zhengyu, deputy general manager of Beijing Communications Service Company, told the press on Friday.
“The translation can be as accurate as 85 per cent, since we are using the most advanced software, Linggotax, whose translation memory can enrich itself constantly.” [Full Text]