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| jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5766 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 13 21 July 2008 at 10:56am | IP Logged | ||
I think that would be best. It's easier to upgrade and it has the advantage of having dictionaries in multiple languages. Mobile phones are already moving toward becoming portable computers. They will soon be capable of handling these kinds of tasks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| habadzi Super Polyglot Senior Member Greece Joined 5363 days ago 70 posts - 106 votes Speaks: Greek*, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Hindi, French, German, Italian, Ancient Greek, Modern Hebrew, Arabic (classical), Indonesian, Bengali, Albanian, Nepali | Message 10 of 13 22 August 2009 at 2:31am | IP Logged | ||
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In 2004 I bought 27 dictionaries from ectaco.com in windows, palm, and windows CE format. Since then I bought a few extra ones. I use them on two old sony pda's that run palm OS, 12 on one and 14 on the other. I never go anywhere without them.
I am usually able to find the words. Some explanations are not exactly English, and one sees that a computer did the sorting. But they are largely satisfactory, and certainly for the price. In fact I want to buy a palm-based mobile phone so that I can continue using them rather than buy them all over again. On the other hand, their database must have improved. So, I do recommend ectaco for software. I personally would not buy their hardware, that's not worth it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5698 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 11 of 13 22 August 2009 at 11:14am | IP Logged | ||
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WordReference is available for iPhone and iPod Touch, if you have one of those... If you don't then maybe investing in one makes just as much sense. You can use them for a kajillion other things too obviously, including flashcards, audiobooks, music, books I believe, etc etc etc. I'm getting one as soon as they're back in stock :-)
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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6083 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 12 of 13 22 August 2009 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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iPod touch -- the language learner's friend. Dictionaries. Internet access. Videos. MP3 playback. Multilingual
internet radio. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| habadzi Super Polyglot Senior Member Greece Joined 5363 days ago 70 posts - 106 votes Speaks: Greek*, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Hindi, French, German, Italian, Ancient Greek, Modern Hebrew, Arabic (classical), Indonesian, Bengali, Albanian, Nepali | Message 13 of 13 22 August 2009 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I saw the website wordreference.com, and indeed it has 15 dictionaries. How does the ipod touch work with respect to backtracking or moving forward? is there a set point that you can input?
For the time being I am with sprint, and I just ordered a treo centro that should run my many old palm dictionaries. I have lost phones in exotic places, and I don't want to lose these expensive gadgets (or pay for insurance to buy them proactively!)
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