Google Working On Real-Time Language Translation Phone

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Google has a history of removing language barriers, but the company hasn’t yet made its web-based translation service especially easy to access or use from a mobile device. We knew that Toshiba was actually working on a translation phone, but now the same company responsible for Android and the Nexus One is apparently doing the same thing. Anyone want to guess how this will end?According to a new report Google is hoping to have “a basic” translation system for mobiles in place within a couple


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