Google Translate now available for the iPhone

While it's possible to use the main version of Google Translate on the iPhone, Google developers Allen Hutchison and David Singleton found that it didn't really work so well on the small screen, so they went about creating a version optimised for the iPhone.

Allen writes:

I tried an early version of this interface out on my trip and it was great -- although my pronunciation wasn't. So every now and then, I would just hold up my phone to let people read what I couldn't. If you're wondering about data costs, I found that I could get between 200 and 400 translations in 1MB of data download. Although we don't charge for this service, your carrier may charge for the data usage so be sure to know what your roaming rates are. For my plan, I found that I could translate 400 phrases for less than $10 when roaming internationally.

Visiting translate.google.com from the iPhone will automatically take you to a mobile-friendly version of the service.

(Via Google Mobile blog)

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