The Indian tech start-up’s Firstouch-branded phones will allow the user to change languages with just a swipe.
Technology start-up MoFirst is planning to launch regional-language based smartphones by March 2015 in India. The company's patent technology will allow users to change languages with just a swipe.
MoFirst, founded in December 2008, has developed smartphones under brand name Firstouch that have its patent technology of translation and transliteration from English to regional language and vice-versa.
The technology allows a message typed in a regional language to translate to English with just a swipe of the finger from left to right and transliterated by swiping the finger from right to left. Customers also have an option to keep all menus of the phones in a regional language and even the application store.
The company is planning to launch the Firstouch phones in Hindi and Marathi in July this year, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali by September, Kannada and Malayalam by November and rest of the regional languages by March 2015. They will be launching 10 models of the Firstouch phones, priced between Rs.3,500 and Rs.12,500, over the next year.
“Language is one of biggest barriers thats prevents people from using mobile phone functions exhaustively. We have launched and tested response to smartphones that supports Gujarati language. By March 2015, we will launch phones for all regional languages,” MoFirst Solutions Co-founder and CEO Rakesh Deshmukh told PTI.
“Our swipe technology helps customer to communicate in regional as well as in English even if they don’t know one of these languages. A message typed in regional language can be translated to English by swiping finger left to right and transliterated by swiping finger right to left,” Deshmukh said.
Source: Mint
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