Free Translators Rock the World
I just got my brand new Nexus One (thanks to a friend of mine, ‘cause in Italy we can’t buy it), and since I’m kind of a picky translator that enjoy taking a look at how things have been translated into my own language, I was looking at the Italian translation of my Nexus One.
Well, first it is nice to have a localization even if you can’t really buy the phone in Italy, but there are things that made me laugh. When you add a contact in the Nexus One, you are asked for the “Given name” of that person: in Italian it has been translated a little bit too literally in “Nome fornito”. 🙂 That really made me laugh!
I’m pretty sure that a Free Translator would have never done that! We Rock the World!
PS: does somebody know how Google handle the Nexus One translation? Just got mine, so I’ve not start to look at all those things…
Milo Casagrande 
If you change Android image, and take a community image you’ll get a better translation. This is what I use on my G1 and the guy is cooking images also for N1: http://www.cyanogenmod.com
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Hey, I had the same observation last week while playing on a Wii. “Stage” in English is translated as “stage” in French which has a very different meaning.
I can totally relate.
I normally use my Android with English locale but switched to German for a manual last week:
»Wireless controls« in German is »Wireless« and »Sound & display« is, well, the same.
You rock, Milo. 🙂