iPhone Gets Google Translate

By Digital Trends Staff Updated October 25, 2009

iPhone Gets Google Translate

On the road abroad and need something translated? Your iPhone will be able to help. On Friday Google released a mobile version of its Google Translate app, designed specifically for the Apple iPhone.

The app, which can translate between 24 languages, uses the Safari browser, so it needs a data connection, although previously searched phrases are stored on the phone, ZDNet reports.

It was developed by Allen Hutchinson, a software engineer from Google UK, using the company’s 20 per cent time policy, which allows employees to give one day a week to new projects.

A Google spokesperson said that the service builds on the Google languages app, which was made public last year “so the only bit we built specially was the iPhone interface. It’s a tool anyone could build, but we built it to integrate with the other Google products for the iPhone."

Google plans mobile versions to work on other handsets.

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