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In this fourth blog on translated related iPhone app series, we review 3 more popular apps viz. Jibbigo voice translator, Lingopal fun multilingual phrasebook and iTranslate plus. These apps are all aimed at global travelers who would find it useful. Jibbigo, though expensive compared to others, is versatile as it has voice recognition capabilities. However for a thorough translation job these apps would prove insufficient and approaching a professional translation agency is the only option.

Jibbigo voice translator

Jibbigo is an iPhone app released last year that converts speech in English to Spanish and vice versa. It was developed by Alex … Continue Reading

We review three more popular translation related iPhone apps here below viz. the Oxford Translator Travel Pro, Linguo and Bd Translator in continuation of earlier blogs on the same topic. These apps are mainly useful for business / leisure travelers looking for some handy phrases in foreign tongues and can not be used in place of service from professional translation agencies.

The Oxford Translator Travel Pro

This iPhone app covers five languages viz. French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Mandarin. Each app costs $10 per language. Oxford Translator is more than just a translation app; it also introduces the user to … Continue Reading

Continuing the discussion on translation related iPhone apps, we review some more popular apps like World Nomads, Lonely Planet Phrasebooks, and Coolgorilla Talking Phrasebooks here below. As mentioned previously these apps can only serve as a guide particularly for people on the move and can not substitute professional translation service providers for achieving accurate results. Their scope of translation is also limited to a few hundred words / phrases.

World Nomads

This free iPhone app is suitable for travelers. It handles 23 languages that include Australian English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Japanese, Cambodian, Cantonese, … Continue Reading

iPhone is one of the earliest and highly successful smartphones introduced into the market in Jan 2007 by Apple Inc. iPhones are portable multimedia enabled mobile phones having diverse functionalities. They have built in high resolution camera, multi touch screen, high quality music player, Wi-fi connectivity etc. The latest version of iPhone is iPhone 4 released in June 2010. Apple has sold more than 50 million units of iPhone so far with sale of iPhone 4 alone touching a figure of 1.2 million within 10 days of its launch.

A no. of applications for improving the functionality of iPhone have been … Continue Reading