Pleco for iPhone and iPad has finally been approved in the iTunes store. The new 2.2 version brings OCR to the app allowing you to capture a word via the camera and have it scanned and converted in to English. The meaning of each character loads up as it is recognised.
Added an amazing new “live” Optical Character Recognizer (OCR) system as a paid add-on; using this, you can point your device’s camera at a word to instantly look up its meaning (no need to take a photo and wait for a result). This is currently only supported on devices with autofocus cameras (i.e., the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4). To try a free demo version of OCR, open Pleco, tap on the menu button at the bottom right corner of the screen, tap “Add-ons,” tap on “Optical Character Recognizer” and tap on the button to download and run the demo.
Woow! Digital has announced that it will be launching an Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet in time for Christmas this year.
Black Friday has started in Australia at the Apple store. A number of discounts can be found, a lot of them around the 10% mark on a range of products.
As of December this year, those of you in Japan will be able to pick up a Sony Reader device. Sony stopped selling the Sony eReader in Japan back in 2007, but is now returning to that area to start up sales again.
When Apple [AAPL] released iOS 4.2.1 on Monday, as expected, the screen orientation lock switch was changed to a mute switch. To stop the screen rotating now requires that you double tab the home button, swipe to the side and tap a virtual button in the dock.
iOS 4.2.1 was released a few days ago which signaled a time to prepare for the older baseband on the iPhone 3G and 3GS to be unlocked. Estimations were showing that Ultrasn0w was being prepared for launch either Wednesday or Thursday this week.
The Nokia E7 had a release date of sometime in the 4th quarter of 2010. However, the release date looks like it has been changed to January 2011 according to what we see on the UK retailer site called Expansys.
Virgin is launching an iPad only magazine called Project next week. The magazine will cover stories in the entertainment, travel, business, design and international culture areas.
Earlier this week rumours indicated that Nintendo would be returning to CES in 2011 after a break of sixteen years.
XDA-Developers has managed to confirm that the next version of Android will be Android 2.3 and not 3.0. The 2.3 update is also known as Gingerbread.
The Microsoft [MSFT] Kinect has certainly been good for hacking and making it do things that Microsoft didn’t originally plan for it to do.
Amazon has launched a new app called the Price Check for iPhone. The new app adds a number of new functions to the traditional mobile shopping cart system.
