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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Google demonstrated a new prototype of the technology , which can translate the text from any given photo. Well Google Goggles is Google’s experimental Android visual search application.
Google’s Blog Post about this said,
You may wonder what’s happening in the background. On the simplest level, this prototype connects the phone’s camera to an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, recognizes the image as text and then translates that text into English with Google Translate.Right now this technology only works for German-to-English translations and it’s not yet ready for prime time. However, it shows a lot of promise for what the future might hold. Soon your phone will be able to translate signs, posters and other foreign text instantly into your language. Eventually, we’re hoping to build a version of Google Goggles that can translate between all of the 52 languages currently supported by Google Translate — bringing even more information to you on the go.
Atlast firefox for mobile has released. Moving right along from the release candidate, Firefox Mobile has arrived in 1.0 form on phones like the N900 that run Maemo. It’s got add-ons, an AwesomeBar, desktop syncing through Weave, and plenty more to recommend it. We just wish it could work on more devices.
Image from jkOnTheRun.
Firefox Mobile’s features are listed and explained at a helpful Mozilla page, but to see what Firefox Mobile looks like in action, check out mobile-obsessed blog jkOnTheRun’s screenshot tour. You can also see the thinking, and a few action shots, of Firefox Mobile in Mozilla’s own video, ported by the folks at the Android and Me blog to YouTube:
Via [LifeHacker] Via Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia’s Maemo Platform! [The Mozilla Blog]
November 26th 2009, Nokia announced that the X6 is now available in selected markets. This model is the flagship for “comes with music” mobile range. You can simply download as many tracks as you like and keep them forever.
Read the full feature list below. These awesome features makes this phone, to get a fully deserved the flagship title.
Nokia have also provided numerous games pre-installed to the device, Spore by EA, Asphalt4 and DJ Mix Tour by Gameloft, which will surely get used when waiting at the bus stop or something similar.
The X6 retails for £449.00/€449.00 and is available today in Europe, Eurasia, Middle-East and Africa.
Full Feature List:
| 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 | |
| 3G Network | HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100 – excl. Lat. America & Brazil | |
| Announced | 2009, September | |
| Dimensions | 111 x 51 x 13.8 mm | |
| Weight | 122 g |
| Type | TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors | |
| Size | 360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches | |
| - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Handwriting recognition - Scratch-resistant glass surface |
| Alert types | Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones | |
| Speakerphone | Yes, with stereo speakers | |
| - 3.5 mm audio jack |
| Phonebook | Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall | |
| Call records | Detailed, max 30 days | |
| Internal | 32GB storage, 128 MB RAM | |
| Card slot | No |
| GPRS | Class 32 | |
| HSCSD | Yes | |
| EDGE | Class 32 | |
| 3G | HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps | |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology | |
| Bluetooth | Yes, v2.0 with A2DP | |
| Infrared port | No | |
| USB | Yes, v2.0 microUSB |
| Primary Camera | 5 MP, 2592×1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light | |
| Features | Geo-tagging | |
| Video | Yes, VGA@30fps | |
| Secondary | Yes, QCIF@15fps |
| OS | Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5 | |
| CPU | ARM 11 434 MHz processor | |
| Messaging | SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging | |
| Browser | WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds | |
| Radio | Stereo FM radio with RDS | |
| Games | Spore, D Mix Tour, Asphalt4 + downloadable | |
| Colors | Blue on White, Red on Black | |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps 3.0 | |
| Java | Yes, MIDP 2.0 | |
| - WMV/RV/MP4/3GP video player - MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A music player - TV-out - Voice command/dial - Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - T9 - Photo editor |
| Standard battery, Li-Ion 1320 mAh (BL-5J) | ||
| Stand-by | Up to 401 h (2G) / 420 h (3G) | |
| Talk time | Up to 8 h 30 min (2G) / 6 h (3G) | |
| Music play | Up to 35 h |
Google has confirmed their acquisition of mobile ad technology provider AdMob for $750 million USD.
Says the search engine giant:
* The deal will bring new innovation and competition to mobile advertising, and will lead to more effective tools for creating, serving, and analyzing emerging mobile ads formats.
* This deal will benefit developers, publishers, and advertisers by improving the performance of mobile advertising, and will provide users with more free or low-cost mobile apps.
* The mobile advertising space will remain highly competitive, with more than a dozen mobile ad networks. The deal is similar to mobile advertising acquisitions that AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo have made in the past two years.
Microsoft has noted that Windows Mobile will soon be known as Windows Phone, after an official name/brand change.
Microsoft reps, according to The Inquirer say the name Windows Phone applies to Windows Mobile 6.1, 6.5 and multitouch Windows Mobile 7. At least something in the Windows universe is forwards and backwards compatible.
The name change will also “reflect the upcoming desktop operating system release where people away from their PC can have the same experience everywhere,” concludes the software giant. Features of the new platform (that is WM 6.5, aka Windows Phone) include back-up of all SMS and email content into Vole’s cloud, remote disabling of the handset and inclusion of an Itunes-alike Windows Mobile software repository called Market Place.
