This will be an ongoing serial, dedicated to highlighting personal situations where having an iPhone proved to be highly useful.
For starters, yesterday at work, my manager was installing software, developed by people in Germany and Austria, on a coworker’s computer. During the installation process, an error message appeared in German. My manager called me over to see it, but since none of us speak German, we had no idea what it said. Excitedly, I said to my manager and coworker, “Hang on a minute.”
So, I pulled out my iPhone, went to the App Store, and searched for “German Translator.” In the search results was the app “Free Translator,” so I downloaded it over the 3G network. When the app was finished installing, I launched it, selected my source and target languages, typed the German error message, and hit the “Translate” button. Boom, now we could read the error message.
