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.