Well, the Iphone and AT&T are going to get a run for their money in a couple of weeks. Motorola, Google, and Verizon will debut a phone with a open source platform. Yes, you can now customize how your phone operates. Another big feature is the ability to run background processes like a computer. Now, you can run multiple apps, thus allowing you to work more efficiently. Now, what does that mean for translation and localization. Well, since it has an open source platform and has a 1GHz processor, it might be able to run a translation software. If SDL, and that's a big if decides to offer a scaled down version of it's new Studio 2009, it's quite possible that translators and translation companies could run it on their phones. Mobility at it's best. If SDL decides not too, and you have a really good programmer handy, then you could create a 3rd party app that is compaltible with Studio 2009 and have an editing tool. You could still perform the translations and apply the memory on the go. Google of course has it's own translation tool (machine, but they wil be coming out with a version that allows you to upload existing memory files and useNow we'll have to wait and see if this will work.
