AnyLang Messenger Appears
Posted by Justin B. on March 14th, 2008 at 11:31 PM
Back in December, we reported on a new trademark that Helio registered, going by the name “AnyLang Messenger”. Although we haven’t had a lot of time to test it out, it seems like it would be very useful to a number of Helio’s members.
AnyLang Messenger allows for texts and one on one chatting to be done in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, or English, and it’s stated that more languages are coming. As of right now, this service is only available for Helio handsets or devices supporting the AnyLang Messenger application. We aren’t sure if there is an equivalent in Korea or China, but we will look into that. AnyLang Messenger also runs at $2.99/month, which doesn’t seem too bad for the ease of texting in a foreign language without actually having to have a handset from that country.
I wish I knew Chinese or Korean to actually have a use for the application. Here’s to hoping that Helio adds ancient runes support or the written language of the Ewoks (Both of which I fluently can write in).
March 15th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Does it auto translate to another language? How is it different from AIM and SMS?
March 15th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I think this is great. I am learning Chinese, and on my PC I have the language packs installed. I send SMS to my friends in China all the time. And while they are learning English faster than I am learning Chinese, this will let me use my limited reading and writing vocabulary to further show my friends how much I want to be part of their native culture.
Plus it’s fun to write I love you and nicknames using pinyin input and actually associate the pinyin with the Chinese characters. Nice add on.
Thanks from a Helio customer currently in mainland China.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am
No, it doesn’t auto-translate anything. It’s a little different than aim/sms because it is allowing for Chinese and Korean input (along with Spanish and English).
March 15th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
meowwww i get it and awesome! i wish for a multichatter like a yahoo chatroom kinda thing where u can invite multiple pplz but i guess itll eat up too much battery… idk lol itd just be fun im not requesting anything
March 15th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
This is awesome, I was just talking with my friend the other day and how we wished we could text Spanish on our phones by using T9 instead of having to input every character. I don’t know how many will use the Chinese or Korean, but I think this may attract more Spanish speaking people to using Helio devices. Kudos Helio!
March 16th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I think this is stupid, since one can just use AIM and Yahoo and SMS to already talk to their friends. As for Korean, its ALREADY in the handset. As for other languages, outside of Chinese (which Im sure there is roman letters for words in Chinese too), I see no other point paying for an application that I can already just type to people in the foreign language.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Roger~ you’re only partially correct about chinese….. there ARE romanization schemes (the main one for mandarin called ‘pinyin’), but as chinese is a language which heavily depends on the tone of syllable being pronounced, almost every romanized word needs an accent mark which is non-standard to any other language’s typeset, which makes it EXTREMELY difficult to tease the meaning out of a single romanized chinese word, unless you have the whole sentence, and then it’s still necessary to consider the context, as well as where the word appears in the sentence. Add to this that some characters have the exact same romanization AND the same tone (but entirely different meanings) and you can see how it would be next-to-impossible, even for native chinese speakers, to communicate via the ABC or T9 typesets on phones (or computers, for that matter). I have several [native] chinese friends here in the states who ONLY use english as the medium for SMS-based communication on phones because attempting it through romanization almost always causes confusion. I hope this clarifies the reason an app like this might be appreciated for chinese people in america as well as for americans trying to learn chinese. ^-^
July 17th, 2008 at 3:16 am
i need help