Well I just launch the app-idea I always had been wondering for.
It's not very hot to have it now due to roaming costs but eventually can be great.
Listen, when on holiday I always am in a place where they don't speak my language. I'm from holland and understand german, englisch and a bit french, but going to greece, spain, or marocco and my options are lost.
The biggest problem is SIGNS. I just don't get em. And it is technically absolutedly possible to just grab your phone, picture it, and let it translate it.
heck: even common signs can get special explanations, since recognising a sign is not that hard.
Google has all the tools, but no-one put it together. (Goggles, translate, GPS for a good indication of probable language, etc)
If anyone starts devving at least make it free for me
I thought Goggles CAN do that already?
Edit: Just tried, it translates texts.
would the app Google Goggles do what you want?
take a picture and they return search results?
Don't forget the cost of roaming internet when using Google gogles.
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hey just read about this on googles website and was wondering if anyone knows about this yet says you need maps v 3.0 says g1 users will get 3.0 maps in update soon
Latitude... WHY!!!?!???
I don't get it. This seems like the ultimate in privacy invasion. Obviously you don't have to use it, but why would anyone?
Why would anyone want someone else to track everywhere they go.
You: "Sorry baby, I'm busy at work..."
Your *****: "No, you asshole, this chat thingy says you are in West LA near Sawtelle, isn't your ex-girlfriend in West LA, like a block from that street?"
You: "oh, ****, forgot about that. Why did I turn that on again?"
I guess some parents would like to be able to keep track of their kids, or companies to keep track of their employees etc. Definitely an invasion of privacy/integrity, but as long as it's not forced upon me I don't really mind.
Yeah im not doing it!!
i like it, there are lots of programs like it such as loopt and whatnot, and people use those...
Obviously you can manually set your location "yeah boss, I'm at that service call" while you are really at the beach.
It's not secure enough for employees/employers.
I just think it's an odd program unless you really love the voyeur aspects of it.
since it can be turned off
i have no problem with it,
it could be useful if someone is trying to find you and all you do is turn on, show them and turn off 5 min later they are right in front of you....(that would be useful for all those craigslist sellers)
could seem useless but, lets say ur in a car accident , or are lost in the woods and you get one bar of signal and use it to show someone your longitude and latitude and that way they can find you...
its like my father use to say before..."why do you want a cellphone, if they call your office and youre not there, then they call your house and youre not there have them wait till you get home, why would you want some one calling you anywhere?" and now hes a winmo cellphone user...
its a "big privacy issue" but it can be useful
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since it can be turned off
i have no problem with it,
it could be useful if someone is trying to find you and all you do is turn on, show them and turn off 5 min later they are right in front of you....(that would be useful for all those craigslist sellers)
could seem useless but, lets say ur in a car accident , or are lost in the woods and you get one bar of signal and use it to show someone your longitude and latitude and that way they can find you...
its like my father use to say before..."why do you want a cellphone, if they call your office and youre not there, then they call your house and youre not there have them wait till you get home, why would you want some one calling you anywhere?" and now hes a winmo cellphone user...
its a "big privacy issue" but it can be useful
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in every turning point there is always a privacy issued breach when reaching someone. Just awhile ago I called my friend through skype and he never accepted the call and it went through. I said 'whats up' and he told me that he was busy. Few days later, he told me that he was in the room with his girl and they were intimate, lol. Almost caught them in the act!
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I don't get it. This seems like the ultimate in privacy invasion. Obviously you don't have to use it, but why would anyone?
Why would anyone want someone else to track everywhere they go.
You: "Sorry baby, I'm busy at work..."
Your *****: "No, you asshole, this chat thingy says you are in West LA near Sawtelle, isn't your ex-girlfriend in West LA, like a block from that street?"
You: "oh, ****, forgot about that. Why did I turn that on again?"
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thats a REAL situation out here in LA..lol u gotta be careful when usin that.
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in every turning point there is always a privacy issued breach when reaching someone. Just awhile ago I called my friend through skype and he never accepted the call and it went through. I said 'whats up' and he told me that he was busy. Few days later, he told me that he was in the room with his girl and they were intimate, lol. Almost caught them in the act!
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that has hapend to me in skype, its a setting, however im all for the latitude, just that for the "common joe" that is going to leave it on... then start complaining about their privacy and what not... its a good thing google clearly points out that it can be turned off and that you first have to accept the request then config it..
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just that for the "common joe" that is going to leave it on... then start complaining about their privacy and what not...
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Indeed. Technology is not magical; users who do not take control of it will end up letting it take control of them. Sadly most of that is through ignorance, but they will never admit that. I mean FFS if you are going to use a service that shares your location, specifically invite someone to share location with (because by default Latitude starts with an empty share list), and then somehow get in trouble because you're doing something you're not supposed to be doing... well I fail to see how the problem is with Latitude (or Loopt, or Where.com).
So i've noticed alot of overeaction about this. From what I understand it's more like twitter with a gps function. I also believe the gps isn't real time, it only update when you post a message. Perhaps you guys should look at the application before you scream privacy invasion.
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So i've noticed alot of overeaction about this. From what I understand it's more like twitter with a gps function. I also believe the gps isn't real time, it only update when you post a message. Perhaps you guys should look at the application before you scream privacy invasion.
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no the choice is real time, or specify a location or off i belive. would be good to just have a update button that sets your current position but dosnt follow you, but i think you have to do that manualy
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Might I suggest that you try "search". Or look at the thread list -- page 1 has quite a few threads on this.
It'd be good for say, you're meeting friends for a pub crawl and you dont want to have to be all "where are you now" "where are you now" "where are you now"
It's like brightkite for the lazy.
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If you are going to have your girlfriend paired with you on latitude, you are pretty much asking for issues. Then again if you have a girlfriend thats all over you about where you are at, there are obviously trust issues and the relationship probably wont work out anyways.
Last night I actually got to use Latitude and it was pretty useful. I was at a bar pretty sloshed, and a friend wanted to join us but didn't know where we were, (We have a place thats kinda like a shopping center with just bars all over the place, so roaming around this place is a blast but its hard to describe where you are at to people who have never been there before.) Anyways he called and I didn't answer. He turned on Latitude and met up with us at one of the bars we just rolled into.
Latitude is useful, just need to make sure you have people you want to see your location and the ones you don't want to see your location on a different list. (One gets to be your friend on Latitude and the other doesn't.)
You don't HAVE to use Latitude and you don't have to have it post your exact location either. You can give general locations.
I have two sisters that get lost everywhere. Literally... Everywhere. You can tell them to cross the street and they will get lost. Anyways simply popping up google maps and being able to tell where they are currently and give good directions is awesome. Its like saying "What do you see right now" Then pulling up street view and seeing what they see, then giving directions based on that.
The user just needs to be responsible with it... Don't add stalkers, don't add someone you don't see yourself talking to 6 months from now. Don't add girlfriends if they are the paranoid type.
for some reason my latitude isnt working. it stays at the "saving my location' screen for hours. any suggestions or solutions?
Welcome to the connected world. Get used to it. It is not Google's or anyone's responsibility but our own.
I find it quite useful and fun. I added an "acquaintance" that isn't terribly bright and super annoying to my Latitude list being sure to only show him City Level. The acquaintance has this nasty habit of always showing up at whatever bar I'm at and talking my god damned ear off. Well now I have a way of seeing where the hell this person is and having advanced warning. Granted this person could set me to City Level on his friends list but like I said, not terribly bright and quite the socialite. How awesome would it be if we could tie Locale into Latitude? Oh sweet Jesus of Mary the possibilities.
well honestly its twitter without the details you have to waste "letting people know what your doing" just another social networking idea
schizox said:
since it can be turned off
i have no problem with it,
it could be useful if someone is trying to find you and all you do is turn on, show them and turn off 5 min later they are right in front of you....(that would be useful for all those craigslist sellers)
could seem useless but, lets say ur in a car accident , or are lost in the woods and you get one bar of signal and use it to show someone your longitude and latitude and that way they can find you...
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I don't get it... Why are you all so indifferent with your privacy?
1.) it can be turned off.
Your girlfriend (I'd rather use that expression than *****) or your boss asks you: I tried to find you on google latitude (assuming she will know how to use that). Why didn't you activate it? You have the new G1 with latitude!
What will you answer? I don't want erverybody to be able to see, where I am? They will answer: I am not everybody! You could activate only me! So why are you having secrets?
And... remember... Google isn't the salvation army. They earn their money with advertising. How long will it last till they use your data for advertising?
2.) it could be useful if
How often have you been lost in the woods or a car accident and you were not able to call someone or use google maps to find out by yourself? These are all stories that don't happen.
And the "I went to a bar and a freind wanted to join us..."
In a bar (those in a shopping center from archangelugp ) you usually have no gps signal. So you can only be found by cell signal. If there are so many bars, this isn't exact enough to find you. If you have a signal, just use "Here I am" from the market and send him an sms, where you are, if not, send him a message with the name of the bar and if nothing works... your friend is out of luck, he won't die.
3.) conclusion
Everybody is free to use latitude of course. I don't want to tell anybody what to do. Just realize what you do. How many of you have really thought about using google mail? Have you noticed that google reads ALL of your mails and uses it for advertising purposes? Read the agreement we all signed when subscribing to gogle services.
I am using google mail by myself , but I am aware of it.
And now go on with google latitude. It reminds me of the stasi in the former GDR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi they knew everything about everyone. Just like Orwell said... Big brother is watching you.
Sometimes when I'm on EVDO and I go to google for searching the Google Search button says "Google" but has Chinese characters next to it. If I search for something it returns all my results in Chinese. If I go back to the main search page and change it to "search in english" things appear as normally expected.
Is there some reason my phone or Google thinks I'm in China when in fact I'm actually in California? Visiting http://geotoolservehttp.com currently shows my IP out of Kansas, though I haven't checked this site when this is happening to me with the Chinese issue.
Anyone else experience this?
Yes - mine thinks im in spain when im in conecticut. Even setting my google account to english it didn't seem to take. I set my homepage to google.com/intl/en to get around it
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I saw the same thing this morning... in the past, I've also had all of my results come back in french.
The fix for me was just to sign in to google.com with my Google account.
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Yup got Germany. (I live in CO)
Had it happen to me also...in french.
I get an italian version every once in a while. Pretty annoying.
I had this happen on my Treo Pro 850 a few times and never found a solution. I haven't had it happen on my Hero yet, knock on wood.
Google is attempting a new cultural campaign whether you like it or not.
Happened to me in Spanish. Cleared the cache and it returned to normal.
No joke I had Elmer Fudd language turn up on Eris when I did a Google search(via the search button).
This used to happen to me a lot on my old winmo phone, I'm in Ohio but it thinks it needs to be in French. I got around this both ways I've already seen people say, google.com/intl/en or just sign in to google.
Anyways.. I just wanted to confirm that this isn't anything to do with the phone, but Google itself.
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Same is happening to me lol
Hy
I just stumbled upon a problem. Some of the apps probably those that have multiple descriptions (in different languages) are in the wrong language (eg. Galaxy on Fire 2 is in German language).
The description is either in German, English, French or Russian which is odd because they are just fine on market.android.com and this didn't use to happen until I went on a trip to Croatia.
I don't know if that has anything to do with it but I have tried disabling GPS location, Wifi location (I cleared Market settings every time and closed it).
I've also used morelocale2 without any success.
Does anyone have any clue as to how to proceed?
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Hy
I just stumbled upon a problem. Some of the apps probably those that have multiple descriptions (in different languages) are in the wrong language (eg. Galaxy on Fire 2 is in German language).
The description is either in German, English, French or Russian which is odd because they are just fine on market.android.com and this didn't use to happen until I went on a trip to Croatia.
I don't know if that has anything to do with it but I have tried disabling GPS location, Wifi location (I cleared Market settings every time and closed it).
I've also used morelocale2 without any success.
Does anyone have any clue as to how to proceed?
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I just bought the A500 last friday and also noticed this.
No custom rom or updates installed (no updates available for me in the Netherlands)
Any idea is welcome
The odd thing is that the languages are changing.
I just rechecked and my test subject (GOF2) is in Italian now.
have you got the location settings switched on? I have mine switched off and I am seeing these issues as well.
I have tried turning them off and every combination I could think of (wifi only, GPS only, both off, both on).
I get japanese every now & then, and i'm in Aus.
This seems to be a known problem with the new Market. I'm seeing the same thing on my Thunderbolt with 3.X Market(WP7 style)
Yup, me too
I'm seeing this as well. Only under Android 3 (it's fine on my N1 for example). Looks like languages shift, and are different for different people. I know that because I noticed it for my own app (which obviously worried me -- I thought I'd messed up somewhere), but an American user of my app (Photo Enhance Pro HD) sees Italian on her tablet, whereas I see Greek (and another language again on the free version of the app).
It looks to be recent? I can't see a reference to this problem before the 14th July, so hopefully it's a screw-up at the server end and can be fixed soon. If only contacting someone who could fix it wasn't so much a case of mentioning the problem on forums and hoping someone is listening...
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I've been trying to play with Google Now as much as I can, but I just can't get it to understand me at all. It thinks I'm saying "or" when I say "are" for example. My voice is very, very raspy so I'm thinking that may be the issue.
And I've setup my home/work locations, but shouldn't it tell me when I need to leave to get to say work on time or what? It never does, even after having it for a month now.
I had the same issue where the smart cards wouldn't appear (maps directions/timing, sports scores, etc.) and found out that I need to enable Web history on my account in order for it work. I think many people may have disabled this on their accounts months ago when Google said it would be storing web history.
For my own personal curiosity, where are you from?
Google Now works flawlessly for me.
I have enabled web history, location history, etc. And nothing. It finally started showing a card to a meeting just now that I setup in my calendar and has an option to navigate to it. Guess it just takes time.
And I'm from North Carolina, but like I said my voice is very raspy (I really should get it checked out, but meh).
Hmmm.
It works fine for me. If it comes to it, perhaps you should try a factory reset.
To get it show you when to leave for work, you have to set up a calendar event.
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I've been trying to play with Google Now as much as I can, but I just can't get it to understand me at all. It thinks I'm saying "or" when I say "are" for example. My voice is very, very raspy so I'm thinking that may be the issue.
And I've setup my home/work locations, but shouldn't it tell me when I need to leave to get to say work on time or what? It never does, even after having it for a month now.
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The issues like "or" and "are" are pretty common with my Google now. The cards don't have any issue and if the locations are step up fine then they would work fine. At least for me it works fine
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Just got my M3 from China because I wanted to get an LTE version, which is not available in the US.
I have set language to English, and set time zone to Pacific, but the tablet still thinks it is in China. Websites that are multi-lingual show Chinese characters, when I try to create a Huawei Id it says "County/Region: China" at the top.
Any idea how to change this? Seems like a nice tablet so far, and the LTE is nice (Google Fi), but I am not sure I am going to take the time to learn Chinese just to use it.
Thanks!
Dave
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Just got my M3 from China because I wanted to get an LTE version, which is not available in the US.
I have set language to English, and set time zone to Pacific, but the tablet still thinks it is in China. Websites that are multi-lingual show Chinese characters, when I try to create a Huawei Id it says "County/Region: China" at the top.
Any idea how to change this? Seems like a nice tablet so far, and the LTE is nice (Google Fi), but I am not sure I am going to take the time to learn Chinese just to use it.
Thanks!
Dave
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I deleted or deactivated all Chinese applications. I manually installed Google Play. Installed its applications, including Google Chrome, keyboard, etc., and I only stayed at Hivoices Chinese characters. I have adjusted the default application to mine.
Thanks! I wound up doing the same thing. Was just hoping there was a way to tell the tablet where it really lives. Reminds me of the old DVD region days...
One related note, on HiVoice... I was playing around and got to the place where you can use your voice to wake up the tablet. It wants me to say something 3 times as my "wake up" word, but no matter what I try I cannot seem to get it to accept anything I say. It is telling me, in Chinese, what I should say -- and clearly I am not following directions well. Were you able to get the voice wake up to work, and if so - what was the trick?
Ditto re PlayStore, Google Launcher, Calender etc
If you change language to English US first, then option for USA should be available. Australia as country was available after changing language to English(UK) on my M3.
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Thanks! I wound up doing the same thing. Was just hoping there was a way to tell the tablet where it really lives. Reminds me of the old DVD region days...
One related note, on HiVoice... I was playing around and got to the place where you can use your voice to wake up the tablet. It wants me to say something 3 times as my "wake up" word, but no matter what I try I cannot seem to get it to accept anything I say. It is telling me, in Chinese, what I should say -- and clearly I am not following directions well. Were you able to get the voice wake up to work, and if so - what was the trick?
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did u get it to work, also, are you using att, how is the lte.