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Q: What's the most useful China-related app you have on your phone?

Dictionary? Metro guide? something else?

11 years 20 weeks ago in  Web & Technology - China

 
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iPhone apps:

 

 

1) KT-Dict

2) google translate

3) Wechat/Weixin

 

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GTalk for communication with people in the rest of the world

The camera

Google Translate

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Pleco, Google Translate, Mcdonald's electronic coupons, any kind of metro map.

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Hanping Chinese Dictionary

Baidu Map

Taobao

WoChaCha (Barcode Scanner)

Beetlebee:

How does WoChaCha work? I haven't heard of that one.

11 years 19 weeks ago
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luggi:

you simply scan the barcode of a product and it will show you the price in different supermarkets and online. it works quite fine with domestic products.

i was once doing some promotion in a supermarket here in shanghai and we sold the products saying that it got the lowest price in shanghai. some chinese people really used that app to check up on us haha^^

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Meituan/Dianping for group shop deals

沃行讯通 (Guangzhou live bus and taxi tracking, also traffic and Metro maps)

Google Translate

Google Maps

Pleco

Wechat

 

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I would say the dictionary....

If I don't know what to say I just type it in get the definition then show it to someone and they always point me in the right direction!

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KT-Dict

Baidu maps (for buses and stuff)

And there was an app whose name I forgot, that registered places like restaurants, with a phone number and all, which was helpful sometimes.

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Same...

 

Pleco

Weixin

And the one that tells you when the bus is coming

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on my iPhone:
Hand-writing Chinese input (to decipher unknown characters; built-in)
Chinese dictionary (which works offline)
Baidu Maps (only if you know Chinese; much more detailed than “foreign” maps)
ChinaBridge (taxi cards for train stations, hotels, etc.)
Dragon NaturallySpeaking (understands Chinese as well! much faster than typing PinYin; only if you know Chinese)

CRI app (China Radio International)

 

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What does CRI app do?

11 years 18 weeks ago
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The CRI app allows you to watch video clips from the China Radio International. You can find the same contents on www.cri.cn, yet it is mostly given as Windows Media clips which won’t play on the iPhone.

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Google Translate has in the latest update gotten offline dictionaries so you can download dictionaries for the languages you need, thus not using data-trafiic for translation. (only for text, e.g. speech still requires data-traffic)

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Does this work for iPhone too?

11 years 18 weeks ago
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Scandinavian:

As far as I know, not yet.

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