Re: Korea-made Iriver Electronic Dictionary blows away most Japanese Electronic Dictionaries

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:05:45 -0700, David Chien wrote:

http://product.iriver.co.kr/p_d25_feat.asp

Basically, interface wise, this D25 dictionary has blown away all of the
Japanese electronic dictionaries out there for prettiness, sheer storage
capacity, etc. Designed for Korean learners, so unfortunately, of
little use to most English learners of Japanese.

However, it does show how rapidly Japanese products are being
out-designed by Korean companies nowadays, so Seiko, Sharp, Casio, etc.
had all better start catching up and update their EJDs.

Features typically not found on Japanese models - color screen, eText
reader, MP3 player, Photo viewer for GIF/JPG/BMP files, 1.3GB storage
space!!!, FM Tuner!!, changable themes, 4.3" 480x272 Playstation
Portable-like color TFT LCD screen, Unicode character support, Calendar
& to-do function, etc.

The bells and whistles are fine and good. However, I look for two things
in an electronic dictionary. First, an assortment of authoritative
published dictionary including the Kojien. Second, a sophisticated jump
feature to go from dictionary to dictionary. I am familiar with the iriver
dictionaries. They are very attractively designed and have great graphics,
but they just don't have the most authoritative dictionaries and I'm
speaking from the standpoint of a Korean.

Phil Yff
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