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iPhoneAppsPlus->Productivity->iTranslate 
| | Last changed: Version: 3.1 | | Category: Productivity | | Rating:  (88340) | Version: Alexander | Size: | Price: Free  |

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Wow  By: wetsonburnsred - Oct 23, 2008 Version: 1.0 Omg this is so cool
Amazing App!  By: jablickar - Oct 22, 2008 Version: 1.0 This application is absolutely fantastic! And Alex is the fastest support I`ve ever seen! The communication through Google API is really FAST so you don`t need the dictionaries offline. Thanks for this App! I wish you good luck!
Irony.  By: behind the mask - Oct 22, 2008 Version: 1.0 Did anyone else notice the typo in the first screen shot? It's also in the app, itself. (No doubt both will be corrected in an update.)Like another free translation app I recently reviewed, iTranslate performs its translations using Google's freely available Translate API. And like that other app, this one has shortcomings. When an app is free, one hesitates to be too critical. But since iTranslate gets its data from Google -- which has its own, free, iPhone-optimized web app -- I think it's fair to compare the two.• With each translation, iTranslate makes you view an ad. (Google's web app does not.)• In iTranslate, each time you perform a new translation, the previous one is lost. (Google's web app keeps a "running tab" of your previous translations, which I find indispensable.)• More irony: The iPhone's text-correcting feature is disabled in iTranslate, so when entering text, you'd better be spot-on, or you'll find yourself backtracking to make corrections, over and over again. (Of course, if you're entering text in a language other than your default language, auto-correction would cause problems. But iTranslate should be *smart* enough to know when the source language matches your default language, and should enable or disable text-correction accordingly.) (Google's web app uses mobile Safari, of course, so text-correction is always accessible.) In iTranslate's favor:• Its interface and icon are both quite attractive. (The actual app icon is different -- in a good way -- than the one displayed here on the iTunes page.) • You can switch languages without having to retype your text.• Native apps are more convenient than web apps, which have to open mobile Safari.In all, iTranslate's a fair attempt, but since Google's web app has more features -- and no ads -- I frankly don't see any advantage to using iTranslate at all.As soon as one of these developers actually *improves* upon Google's free web app, they'll have a hit on their hands. And please -- in addition to the free version, give us an ad-free version for a buck or two.For now, I'm sticking with Google's web app.
Very good app  By: Nat Turner - Oct 21, 2008 Version: 1.0 This is the best translator I've used for the iPhone so far. I like that I can select the languages and enter the text one screen. I also like that I can select different languages without losing the text that I typed in.
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