Mobile travel application developers Steape has partnered with Lonely Planet to develop audio phrasebooks for java-enabled mobile phones.

Published: 14 Oct 2008

Mobile travel application developers Steape has partnered with Lonely Planet to develop audio phrasebooks for java-enabled mobile phones.

Steape has worked on mobile phrasebooks in 10 languages, with translations from English into Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Thai, Czech and Spanish. Each contains around 200 phrases with both text and audio translations.

The phrasebooks, which play audio through the phone's loudspeaker, are available for hundreds of mobile phones running the Java MIDP 2.0 platform with versions also available for Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices.

Chris Boden, director of global business development, Lonely Planet said the applications will be made available through handset manufacturers and mobile network operators worldwide.