Telecom News:  Technology (13th Mar, 2013)

Send and receive SMSs, emails in Hindi with Google Hindi Input app

If you have great passion for your mother tongue Hindi but grudge the fact that you are restricted by not being able to send or receive text messages or emails in Hindi, here is good news for you.
 
You can do it all, provided you have an Android smartphone or tablet as Google launched the Google Hindi Input app on Google Play.
 
“If you have an Android smartphone or tablet, Google Hindi Input is the quickest and easiest way to compose emails, send messages and post on social networks using Devanagari script” Google said.
 
Hindi is spoken by hundreds of millions of people in India and around the world. But reconciling the breadth and complexity of the Devanagari script and the limitations of a QWERTY keyboard can be a barrier to communication, particularly on mobile devices.

Google Hindi Input has two methods for writing Hindi text. In transliteration mode, you simply type a Hindi word in English (like namaste), and the app will automatically convert the word to Devanagari script.
 
Hitting the globe button switches to a full Devanagari script keyboard, with Hindi consonants ordered alphabetically on two pages. In this mode, you can long press at any time to select various forms of a consonant.