Toshiba is showing off an application where a user can translate English, Chinese and Japanese quickly with the help of his cell phone. No, it does not need to go online to do the trick but Toshiba’s app can translate words and sentences using the phone’s limited resources.

The software was demonstrated on Toshiba’s TG01 and supports voice recognition, synthesis for output and two translation methods – statistical machine translation for English-Chinese, Chinese-English-Japanese and rule-based translation for the remaining ones.

The result is expectedly, not accurate all the times but PCWorld reckons trying again is the best option.

The commercial release of the app is unknown but Toshiba’s research department claims its almost done and can be sold soon.

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Techblog.gr has leaked pictures of TG01′s successors that aptly goes with the names of TG02 and TG03. TG02 is expected to be water resistant and sport a 4.1-inch WVGA touchscreen display, 3.2MP camera and 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. TG03 on the other hand, ups the ante by integrating 5.1 channel speaker and a larger 5MP camera.

Both the devices will launch in Q4 of this year.

[Via Unwiredview]

We have seen Qualcomm trying to show the capabilities of its Snapdragon platform and now we’ll see the first device powered by Qualcomm’s system-on-chip (SoC) at the upcoming MWC. Made by Toshiba, the TG01 definitely looks to possess beauty with brains. The 9.9mm thin handset boasts Toshiba’s custom made 3D UI layer which will sit atop WinMo 6.1 and has a large 4.1-inch WVGA touchscreen display, GPS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and microSD slot. The inclusion of 1GHz Snapdragon processor will also make it the fastest phone on earth, at least for the time being.

Plenty of images, over here.

[Via Engadget]