Mobile Device Testing and Localization

Localizing Mobile Devices with Professional Translations and Testing

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Global markets for wireless communications devices are experiencing hyper-growth, as operators and device manufactures tap into developing markets such as China and India. The relative ease of wireless network build-out is making mobile service available in places where landline communications are limited. For mobile device makers, this creates exciting growth opportunities — and significant challenges. The language diversity in certain markets (there are more than 15 languages spoken by more than 25 million people in India alone) presents daunting localization challenges. And with intense pricing pressures and razor-thin margins, device makers must carefully manage costs.

To succeed in these global markets, mobile device manufacturers must tailor devices to the unique language and cultural needs of the targeted region. They must translate user interfaces and provide documentation and support in local language, all while achieving continual cost reductions to remain price competitive.

Having an experienced partner with proven wireless expertise, integrated development, testing, and localization capabilities — coupled with global scale — makes all the difference. Lionbridge is helping the world's leading mobile device companies achieve their globalization objectives with:

• Product localization services to ensure both hardware and embedded software are fully compatible with existing infrastructures for each target market, and to ensure products provide a consistent experience across all languages
• Localization testing services within local network environments to ensure wireless products — including Bluetooth devices — operate properly in the local market, and in the presence of potential local interferences
• Outsourced translation services for the full range of user resources — from the device interface to support Websites and printed documentation — to reduce costly customer support calls and ensure a high-quality user experience across more than 80 languages in virtually every global market
• eLearning services that provide training to global sales forces in their native language, accelerating training and enhancing sales success
• Outsourced technical writing services that quickly develop all user and device level documentation, in translated, or translate-ready format for rapid deployment in global markets

Lionbridge provides the scalability to launch products in multiple global markets simultaneously, without increasing the burden on in-house staff. And we reduce cost and complexity by providing a single, flexible source for a wide range of content and technology localization services, for markets around the world.