buy a movie ticket - Done check the air quality - This isn't built into the client, but via accounts you can add. Inferior to a dedicated app which almost eve

buy a movie ticket - Done check the air quality - This isn't built into the client, but via accounts you can add. Inferior to a dedicated app which almost everyone has pay for street food - Done, but scanning a QR code and getting confirmation that's been scanned is more time consuming than handing over a 10 Yuan note and getting change publish articles - Done. There's also a microblog feature which has far surpassed Weibo, the twitter-like app report an incident to the police - Not done but see the usefulness. Non-emergency things reported as text could really help police workflow here release an app - Done. Banking stuff too, and a lot more is coming in 3rd party financial services order groceries - Done, kinda. Order lunch and get it delivered. connect to Wi-Fi - Confused. The phone connects to WiFi, WeChat uses the phone's WiFi connection check the queue time for a restaurant - Not done. open an online store - Not done. Do you mean use the microblog function to advertise wares; that's common? various middleware linking to escro services etc? add money to your phone plan - Done. In most cities, all utility bills can be paid. donate to charity - Well, you can donate/send funds to anyone find a lost child - Not done become an internet celebrity - Not done WeChat has achieved a critical mass surpassing even QQ (they're made by the same company). Not through absolute destruction; QQ is still big on both phone and PC while the PC app for WeChat is limited compared to PC-based QQ. I mentioned banking above. While WeChat offers payment services at the moment, it's seen by many as a toy compared to AliPay. This will change over the next 6-12 months as behind the scenes Tencent are courting banks (and others I'm sure, but banking sector is my thing) about advantages WeChat offers, for example tracking success of marketing campaigns - instant 'big data' feedback. Some more things I use WeChat for, almost exclusively. Office circle - Everyone in my office has to be in a circle where office announcements are made, from at the weekend 'is anyone in, I forget my access card' to sharing teambuilding photos/video instantly to starting a chat between a few people by creating a new group chat International calls - Video call a colleague in Singapore? Use WeChat and office WiFi. Free and easy. Helpline - Instant texting, send pictures, video, chat. No 'run in background, share screen' function as far as I know yet, only share via camera. Not technically hard given everything else. Events - Subscribe to accounts offering new events. I have no idea why Tencent have not yet added calendar functionality. Discount cards/offers - Shared socially or from subscribed accounts Lucky money - Like sending money, but randomly distributed. Common for teambuilding LinkedIn/Facebook - Integrates these services on a very basic level Other stuff that it does: Stickers Look Around - feature for people nearby that are bored and want to chat/hook up; Shake - for people 1000s of km away that are bored and want to chat/hook up; Bottle - feature so if you are bored and want to chat/get something off your chest/hook up you can throw a bottle and someone can reply. -- tl/dr At least 30% of smartphone time in China is on WeChat. Often in travel time. But probably not chatting. Reading a post/posts, watching a video someone linked, browsing online shops, it's just in a massive payment & contact-linked type iFrame. A: "What's the first thing you do when you wake up?" B: "Open my eyes" A: "The second?" B: "Check WeiXin."