ABBYY introduced developer tools for the mobile platform Android

Company ABBYY, a developer of software for mobile devices, announced a new version of the cross-platform software tools for the development of mobile applications, OCR-ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine. The new version allows developers to easily integrate character recognition technology to mobile devices with the Android. Also ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine supports popular operating systems like Windows Mobile, Symbian, LINUX. ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine allows you to turn on text recognition in various mobile applications: from the program to enter the paper business card to the address book of phone systems, business process management. For example, it is possible to create an application that can take pictures, translate the text and send SMS snippets of articles or documents. Another example - you can now «link» camera phone systems, and electronic dictionary ABBYY in one program, which will translate fotografy text (the menu in a French restaurant, a German label medicines, etc.).
The new version of ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine technology holistic analysis of the document Document Analysis, which analyzes the image as a set of text blocks. This structure is better reproduced the text, for example, columns or paragraphs. ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine confident defines debris on the image and automatically corrects imbalances, resulting in recognition of becoming a better and faster. This is especially true for images from the camera phone. The technology supports 58 languages and provides a check of the words in dictionaries. For the tasks of data entry business cards in mobile devices have specialized dictionaries for 16 languages, including the addition of a new version of the Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish.
December 17, 2008 product has been awarded the International Award Silver Mobile Star Award in the nomination «the best program for business: reading and data collection».

Huawei presents Android Phone in next month

In mid-December, after the Chinese company Huawei has joined the Open Handset Alliance, it became known that in the near future it is going to enter the Android-smartphones. It was originally anticipated that the first country which will be sold to these vehicles, will be Australia. And now, Huawei reported that its first phone on the Android platform will be presented in February at Mobile World Congress. At the same time, it was reported that will be demonstrated the first mobile phone in UMTS-monochipsete, the smallest HSPA + USB-modem and a new digital fotodisplay.

Photos of the second HTC phone based on Android

InsideWeb appeared "spy" photos of the second smartphone platform based Google Android, which the company HTC is preparing for the U.S. mobile operator T-Mobile. For the first anology - HTC G1, while the second is called G2.


Judging from the photos HTC G2 - single, rather than horizontal slider with pained display, five function keys, and it seems the optical navigation button (a black thing the middle). Rear - 3.2-MP camera with flash and autofokus. Certainly HTC G2 module will be equipped with wireless Wi-Fi, GPS-receiver and slot for memory cards microSD. Judging by the only available photographs, T-Mobile G2 is very similar to the model Sapphire 2.0, recently showing in catalogue news HTC in 2009.The planned release date HTC G2 - May 2009.