Dubai-based airline Emirates is behind an amazing new Apple iPhone application which acts as a translation tool by taking a picture of the handset users mouth and then animates to produce a range of phrases.
Built to translate English into French, German and Arabic by Lean Mean Fighting Machine in London, the app is a bit rough around the edges and difficult to set up – but it works.
Here is a demo video.
Google and Verizon Wireless are teaming to get Google’s Android mobile platform humming on the largest wireless network in the U.S., with its 87 million subscribers. Both companies committed to putting a lot of dough into the effort.
In addition to Verizon Wireless, Android has agreements with two other major wireless carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint, and you’ll be able to find Android on nine handsets.
However, rest assured that Apple isn’t discontinuing production of the iPhone because of this new Google-Verizon partnership, and developers — travel code-writers and others — aren’t slowing in their app-building for the iPhone.
Android, in fact, has a lot of proving to do in the marketplace.
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