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Word Lens is much more than your run-of-the-mill translation app and if you have watched the above video, you will know why already.  Developed by QuestVisual’s Otavia Good and John DeWeese over two and a half years, the app works by using OCR and instantly translating any text that the smartphone’s camera is pointed at, overlaying the translated text on the original image.  Pretty cool and definitely useful the next time you head to a Chinese restaurant. Word Lens is currently available only for the iPhone and supports translation from Spanish to English for now, but according to QuestVisual, there […]

European users who can’t wait for the LG Star, but willing to settle for an Android phone with less processing power, can take a gander at the newest member of the Optimus line from the Korean company, the Chic E720.  The Optimus Chic E720 is out now for the European market and to start things off, Amazon Germany is offering the device for €282.89.  What you do get for this price is a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen display, a 5mpx camera, HSDPA support and DLNA.  The phone will run Android 2.2 Froyo (which should be upgradeable to 2.3 whenever it’s out)

With a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen and a 600MHz processor, the Acer beTouch E140 may not be the most coveted tool on the shelf, but if it’s a startup Droid you are looking for, this is it.  There’s also a 3.2mpx lens, WiFi, HSDPA network support, Bluetooth, FM radio and GPS and up to 32GB microSD expansion with Android 2.2 under the hood, so you won’t really be getting too low end when it comes to features.  The smartphone has now been announced for the UK market and although no price accompanied this news piece, expect it to be priced at

With Christmas round the corner, all the stores including your corner shop is showering discounts and if you ever waited to take the Android plunge at a budget, this is the time to do it.  Fresh on the discount market is the AT&T Dell Streak from Best Buy, which should be yours for a meager $99.99.  The Streak will be available in two colors of black and white and the rest of the specs haven’t changed since you last read them except for the OS upgrade to Android 2.2 Froyo. Of course, you still have to sign up for a

UK’s Carphone Warehouse has announced that the next iteration of the Nexus One is now available for preorder on its website.  The smartphone is about 10 days shy of release, but that shouldn’t stop a proper Englishman from preordering it and be among the first few to get the device before others, right?  The device is priced at £549.99 unlocked but if you don’t have that kind of cash right now, sign yourself up for a two-year tiedown with a £35 monthly commitment. Hit up the Carphone Warehouse website for the complete details if you live in the UK and

Of course, if the Nexus S is getting it, why can’t an identically specced device get it too, right?  Samsung cleverly hid behind words when queried recently on the subject but its Indian execs, not quite so.  The news was revealed via Samsung’s Indian Twitter page in reply to a Galaxy S user query, saying “Gingerbeard [sic] will be available for GalaxyS users.”  Considering this is great news for many of our readers, we’ll let the typo slide 🙂 It might be a little while before this actually happens, since the Froyo 2.2 update is still on its way to

Touted to be the iPad killer, the Adam has been in the making for a long time now.  And now that it’s out, looking at its specs, we have to say it does have a fair chance at doing exactly that.  Coming from Notion Ink, the Adam is jammed to the hilt with features and packs a dual-core Cortex A9 processor on the Nvidia Tegra 250 SoC.  The exact version of Android running on the tablet is not known but it would be safe to assume at least Froyo, if not Gingerbread.  Ambient light sensor, GPS, 3-axis accelerometer and full

With the current version having already sold a whopping 6.1 million devices and still selling hot, Apple is already is prepping the next iteration of the popular device and will be ready to ship out from Foxconn, the designated manufacturing company for the iPad 2, in February 2011.  An estimated 400,000 to 600,000 devices are anticipated to be shipped starting February 2011, with a release in April 2011.  Seems like a small number, considering the fact that Apple is selling a million iPads a month currently, but according to Digitimes, a site with its finger on the pulse of the

Available across a whole host of mobile platforms, the popular music ID app, Shazam, has now crossed the 100 million mark in usage.  The news gains that much more significance if you consider the fact that almost 25 million users have joined the service in the past six months, which is no small feat.  Andrew Fisher, CEO, had this to say about the achievement: When Shazam launched creating the mobile music discovery category, we couldn’t have imagined that over 100 million people in 200 countries would be using our service, or that Shazamers would be actively interacting with television programs

Both a tablet and a phone sporting Linux-based MeeGo operating system have been spotted at an Intel press event in Moscow and mail.ru‘s Anton Spiridonov has a few pictures to prove it.  The phone, christened the Hi/Lo Vibrant, will be powered by Intel’s Atom processor running at an unspecificed clockspeed and also boasts of a 5-megapixel shooter on its behind.  Not much to go on there, but compared to what we have on the tablet, that is really something.  There’s no info on the company that has been entrusted with the manufacturing nor are there any telltale signs of other

The Galaxy Tab might be on the forefront leading the Android tablet revolution, but the coveted iPad still sits snugly on top as the world’s favorite.  After selling more than 3 million units in the first 80 days of availability, the iPad is now available in the UK, with T-Mobile, Orange and 3 announcing its availability on their respective networks.  All the three carriers are offering similar  prices with a two-year contract at £199 for the 16GB version and £249 for the 3GB variant while the 64GB iPad can be bought for £349. The difference seems to be in the

It happened with the Galaxy S (5 million!), and as we thought it would, the Galaxy Tab has reached its big milestone, the first million.  The Android tablet sold a huge 600,000 units within 30 days of its release.  And now barely two months after it made its appearance, Samsung has now come out with the news and, needless to say, with trumpets blaring. Considering it is available on all the major US mobile carriers and most of the known world already, this seems but a stepping stone to far better sales numbers, we say.  And with the holiday rush

In what can only be seen as a bid to steal away Apple fanboys to the Android camp, Cellular South is offering $100 off on an Android handset in lieu of an AT&T iPhone, which will have to be handed over physically to the carrier.  Customers ready to make this traitorous switch will also get a reimbursement on their AT&T early termination fees in the form of a credit against their Cellular South bill, which could be up to $300. The Android devices on the list include the HTC Desire and the ever-popular Samsung Galaxy S, so you do get

There’s is already an unveiling date of December 9th being passed around, but a little sneak peak never hurt nobody right? When we last reported on the PSP Phone, it didn’t have a name, had a speculative list of features and a picture that Engadget insists is for real.  Now, we have a blurry quality video that allegedly shows the upcoming phone in action, put up by techblog.gr and also a name for the device, Sony Ericsson Z1. As you can see from the video, the device (assuming it is the Z1) is pretty big, pointing to the upper end

This might be the much-needed push for Microsoft to get more WP7 phones on the street but that aside, it is still a great deal to snag a phone with decent specs.  Stepping it down from the $49.99 price that it was offering for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Amazon has now put up the Samsung Focus, LG Quantum and HTC Surround for AT&T on sale for $0.01.  It is also waiving off the $36 activation fee until the end of this month, making this offer a steal. But be sure of what you are getting into though, as all