Travel site lastminute.com and mobile software company Cool Gorilla have teamed up to bring a new translator app to the iPhone. With the success of Cool Gorilla’s six foreign phrasebooks released for Nokia and Sony Ericsson last May it was inevitable that an iPhone version would be developed.
The translator offers five languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with a Greek version in development. iPhone’s translator is organized like a phrase book with sections like essentials, food & drink, socializing, and emergencies. Some of the categories (like socializing and food & drink) have subcategories so you can find just what you need to say.
Not only does the translator offer text versions of the English and translations, but voice overs from native speakers. This ensures that you’re pronouncing everything correctly. Or you could just point the iPhone at a native and let the translator speak for you. Whatever, its your phone.
The translator itself is very intuitive and it’s pretty easy to find what phrase you’re looking for. Its a bit easier to use than an actual phrasebook because you’re not flipping through pages trying to find a translation. So if you’re traveling abroad or just need a quick translation so you can hit on that cute foreign exchange student just point your iPhone’s browser to www.coolgorilla.com/iphone.