G1 News

Google has just updated their Google Goggles application with the addition of a new feature – text translation. To translate text, just photograph the text you want translated with your Android smartphone’s camera, then the app translates the text into English.

Google Googles is available exclusively on Android devices and with no details on whether Google plans to roll this application out to other platforms, this is another solid reason why you’ll be patting yourself on the back if you opt for Android handset.

The service currently supports a number of languages including English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. However, Google intends to expand this even further.

So, if you’re linguistically challenged and headed for a European break this summer – make sure you snap up the latest version of Google Googles!

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Whilst January came and went with nary a Cupcake-related peep from T-Mobile, it seems like they do have something in the works to keep G1 fans quiet for the meantime in the form of an entirely different update!

“To ensure a great experience with the T-Mobile G1 with Google, customers with these devices will receive an Over the Air (OTA) update to their devices between February 5 and February 15. This OTA will include new system enhancements such as the ability to save pictures or files to file by long-pressing an item, check for system updates, and use the Google Voice Search feature. The OTA will also fix a number of known issues. New G1 activations will receive the OTA up to three days after service has been activated.”

Hey! Google Voice Search! Not quite virtual G1 keyboard, but it’ll do for now?

Yeah, we’re as gutted as you are…

The biggest update to the T-Mobile G1 since release has been offering an on-screen keyboard and all manner of performance improvements (even video recording maybe?).

Understandably, when the RC31 update (nicknmaed ‘Cupcake’) was rumoured to be out by mid-January, we lost our collective minds!

Now, official Cupcake rumour-mill Coogle and Blog say that it will be out by the end of January, albeit with a few new insider-delivered FACTS attached:

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