Blackberry Apps: Sakhr Does Voice-to-Voice Automated Translation

August 19, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Star Trek had a fictional translator as working device on their T.V. show. Hoshi Sato, the communications officer on the Enterprise in Star Trek: Enterprise was the character that used the translator on the show. It was used to translate from English to one of many alien languages and vice versa. This was considered an ‘improbable technology’ at the time it was written for the show.

Fast forward a few years later and a company by the name of Sakhr. Sakhr is the number one ranked for Arabic translation by the U.S. Government andthey are the pioneer in Arabic natural language processing (NLP) technologies, with 15+ years of research and a corpus of billions of words. The company has developed an app for the Blackberry to translate from Arabic to English and English to Arabic. Seeing is believing, so watch the video below.

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Touch UI Version Of WinMo 7.0 To Release February 2010

August 19, 2009 by Leave a Comment

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Microsoft is plotting to adopt a dual-platform strategy to compete with Android and the iPhone. Microsoft is officially launching WinMo 6.5 on October 1st, 2009 and they state that they will have an additional upgrade version with a touch interface by February 2010. The plans aren’t to phase out WinMo 6.5 but to augment their selection of phones with a lower priced version of the OS.

We posted a video earlier this week of a new version of HTC’s TouchFLO 3D 2.6 that was very sexy. If this gives us an indication where WinMo is headed, we would have to say definitely in the right direction.

[via DigiTimes]

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Samsung InstinctQ Headed to Sprint In October; Runs Android

August 19, 2009 by Leave a Comment

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An annoymous tipster at Phandroid decided to drop a little surprise in their inbox; pictures of the Samsung InstinctQ. Although we have known of the existence of the Wi-Fi certification we weren’t assured until today that this unit is actually running Android. This Sprint bound QWERTY hardware Instinct brand phone has a rumored release date rumors of October 11th, 2009. So it appears that Sprint may get two Android devices in early October; The Samsung InstinctQ and the HTC Hero.

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RIM Including Full Version of Flash & Silverlight Support Next Gen Browser

August 19, 2009 by Leave a Comment

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Here that? That is the Blackberry nation screaming yippee! RIM is ready to include the FULL version of Flash and Silverlight in their next generation Blackberry browser next summer. Although by that time Opera, Bolt and perhaps SkyFire will already support the full version of flash before then. This still won’t make Blackberry’s browser obsolete in any way whatsoever. Why you ask? Because RIM has been testing new phones running on both HSPA and LTE next generation (4g) networks. According to RIM, the have successfully achieved 10Mbps+ download speeds on the next generation LTE networks.

[via Engadget]

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REVIEW: Nokia RX-51 a.k.a. Nokia N900; Eye Candy UI of Maemo

August 19, 2009 by 1 Comment

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Mobile Review has completed a comprehensive review of the Nokia RX-51 (N900). This Nokia is packing a wallop full of goodies you would expect and some you wouldn’t. Some of the features are below but I suggest that you head on over to MR’s website and have a gander at all the spectacular photos (and there are a whole lot to enjoy).

  • Slider form-factor landscape qwerty
  • Auto Focus 5 MP with a lens shutter
  • Hot-swappable microSD slot supports memory cards up to 32 GB
  • ARM Cortex-A8 CPU and carries 32GB of internal memory on-board
  • MicroUSB jack

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How NOT To Do An Unboxing Video: Internet Technology Podcast

August 19, 2009 by Leave a Comment

We have all seen several un-boxing video of new cell phones. Many of them are done well and few not so much. But when someone tries something truly original and goes all out at making mockery of un-boxing cell phones, you have to hand it to the Steven. He did a really good and thorough job of this un-boxing. Enjoy!

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