“That’s why we shrunk them by 90 percent, to a much more manageable 25 MB each.”
“We know that many of you found the previous packages too big to download on unreliable data connections or to keep on your phone’s limited storage,” explains Google. Offline mode uses downloadable language packs, each coming in at a couple tens of megabytes. This feature is ideal for traveling: you just point your camera at, say, a restaurant sign in a foreign language and witness the appropriate translation appear like magic in live video feed. The instant camera translation feature, called Word Lens, now works with Chinese: it reads both to and from English, both Simplified and Traditional Chinese. For starters, Google Translate now works without an Internet connection, allowing you to translate words, phrases and sentences in 52 of the 103 supported languages when there is no cellular or Wi-Fi connection available. Google’s native Translate application for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad received a major update yesterday in the App Store, bringing version number to 5.0 and introducing some rather interesting advances.
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