Electronic dictionaries
huasen
November 19, 2007, 05:25 PM posted in General DiscussionDoes anyone in poddieland have one of these that they're happy with? I just bought a GSL V88 on the Internet, but it's a little disappointing. Although it allows you to input in pinyin, there doesn't seem to be a way of outputting to pinyin. Not even by switching to English -Chinese and looking up the English.
I know they're intended for Chinese people learning English (unless you pay a fortune apparently), but I'm sure I've seen one that does output pinyin, even though it seemed a bit convoluted to do it.
huasen
November 19, 2007, 07:05 PMThanks Yves, now where did I put the box this one came in? ;–)
goulnik
November 19, 2007, 09:03 PMI know, all these boxes gathering dust, sell it second hand maybe ;-)
mrdtait
November 19, 2007, 09:07 PMI keep hoping someone will make one for the iPhone / iPod Touch using cedict but so far only an iPhone friendly website exists.
goulnik
November 19, 2007, 09:15 PMPleco is regularly asked whether they'll make an iPod (resp. a Blackberry) version, and the answer is no and it seems won't change for a while
goulnik
November 19, 2007, 09:15 PMsorry, I obviously meant an *iPhone* version
roscovanbasten
November 21, 2007, 05:47 AMI use the Pleco Dict on my Palm Pilot and find it extremely useful. It is so convenient to have it in your pocket, the vocab is great, you can use pinyin to search for words, you can save words and test yourself, you can write Chinese characters...basically it is brilliant.
goulnik
November 21, 2007, 10:27 AMroscovanbasten, it's going to be even greater when they finally release v.2 with additional dictionaries, including a Chinese-Chinese
goulnik
November 19, 2007, 06:09 PMnot a stand alone device, but a program that can run on mosts PDAs/smartphones and I think the best : Pleco dict