Motech Personal Travel Assistant
Are you going to the Beijing Olympics? If so, then Motech’s Personal Travel Assistant can be an invaluable tool for communicating with the local population during your travels. It contains emergency numbers, a phrase book that is categorized by type of activity, and a city guide. It even allows you to add shortcuts to your own collections of phrases so that you can get to them quicker. The most amazing part of the application is the push-to-talk feature, which uses a real voice facility to actually pronounce the phrases you have selected in Chinese in the local dialect. Thus, the English to Chinese communication can be completed in an understandable form.

The phrase book provides a number of simple daily phrases for the end user, including basic phrases, call-for-help (SOS) phrases, and other expressions for moving around, finding and enjoying restaurants, shopping, bars, and clubs. You can use the application’s search function to quickly find the phrases that you are looking for. The City Guide provides information on several cities in China. For each city, there is information on food, hostels and hotels, sightseeing, hot spots, shopping, entertainment, bars and clubs, emergency and public services, transportation tickets, and car rentals. The application is available for all S60 3rd Edition devices such as the Nokia 3250, Nokia 5700 Xpress Music, Nokia 6110, Nokia 6120, Nokia E61i, Nokia E65, Nokia E70, Nokia E90, Nokia N71, Nokia N75, Nokia N76, Nokia N77, Nokia N80, Nokia N92, Nokia N93, Nokia N93i, and Nokia N95. For more information, go to www.pushtospeak.com.cn.

Motech
Motech provides mobile application development services and solutions to mobile operators and mobile device manufacturers. The company has completed a series of mobile translation products for a number of mobile platforms, and has also deployed the Cool Dictionary application to several mobile platforms. More at www.motech.cn.