Friday, October 25, 2002

Japanese English Dictionary for English Pocket PCs

I'd overlooked this until today, but Ectaco's Japanese<->English dictionary will work on English Pocket PCs! Not only that, but It looks like a nice dictionary as well ... one that is designed for native English speakers rather than native Japanese speakers. From the pictures shown here you can see various keyboards and lookup systems. It's a bit pricey at $49.95. (Update: Since I posted this a mailing list member informed me that the same application is available at www.handango.com for $14.95 - great value! :-) There's a 10MB trial version which gives you access to 10% of the entries and you need 7.5MB free on your Pocket PC to install it.

(Thanks to Jack Halpern of www.cjk.org for asking me to test the Arabic dictionary which prompted me to take a second look at the Japanese one as well).

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