The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Well, Hutchison says that he could “get between 200 and 400 translations in 1MB of data download” and that as Google didn’t charge for the service, the only fees would be what your international telcos charged you through your carrier for global roaming.
Warning that users should check what those rates are, Hutchison said that for his plan, he found that he “could translate 400 phrases for less than [US] $10 when roaming internationally.”
Getting back to blog comments for a moment, some of the bloggers had other suggestions. One was to allow users to easily choose which view they wanted to see – the standard web view, or the iPhone view.
It’s true that it can be incredibly annoying to get a customised iPhone view of a site, when part of the iPhone’s appeal is that it can display web pages as seen on a regular computer.
Of course iPhone customised versions are great, but users should be able to choose which they prefer, simply and easily. No doubt this can be fixed easily enough, should Hutchison decide to add a link to make the change.
Another suggestion from me is to remember to cater for other mobile devices, not just the iPhone. Yes, Google does this already for different devices, but a generic mobile interface (if not several specific mobile interfaces) should be created alongside the iPhone version – why should iPhone users get all the customised web page action?
While remembering, of course, to always make it easy to see the page as per a desktop computer if desired.
Right now, there are two ways to check out the new Google Translate for iPhone. The first is to type “translate.google.com” into your iPhone’s (or iPod Touch) Safari web browser.
The other way is to visit www.google.com on either device, choose the ‘More’ tab and choose translate from there, although the first way is easier.
Hutchison then ends by hoping users will try it if they’re travelling “this summer” (forgetting that Southern Hemisphere people are in winter and like to travel, too) and that you might find it useful, even if you’re travelling to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
David Bass
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