Totally awesome, but there's a big problem. Most of the time when you're in need of translation of text you find like signs, it's because you're in another country. That means data is very expensive, because your fancy iphone is locked and roaming.
It's awesome, many people may download it, but it will get very little use. :-\ They should probably charge like $5 or $10 for it, make money on people WANTING to use it, not on them actually using it.
Unless i'm mistaken and it's doing the image processing all locally, in that case, they've got a smash hit.
It said in App description that it does not need network connectivity. To verify this claim, I put my iPhone in 'Airplane' mode and tried the sample paper again. And I can confirm that it works without any network connectivity.
Also, the App is free but you have to pay for each language to language translation separately. I think it's a smart move. I may buy 'Spanish to English' for 4.99 if I am going to Mexico. If I end up in France 6 months down the line, I will buy 'French to English' at 4.99. I won't worry about spending 4.99$ but they have successfully extracted 9.98 from me. This is awesome.
It's awesome, many people may download it, but it will get very little use. :-\ They should probably charge like $5 or $10 for it, make money on people WANTING to use it, not on them actually using it.
Unless i'm mistaken and it's doing the image processing all locally, in that case, they've got a smash hit.