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Danyll Wills

Product: Oxford Concise English and Chinese Dictionary for Palm OS, 2nd edition
Price: US$49,95
Pros: High-resolution fonts in simplified and traditional Chinese characters
Cons: Minor problems with registration, but these were quickly resolved

For many years, I carried the Oxford Concise English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary with me wherever I went.
 By itself, it was not too awkward, but these days I have a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant and a lot of other things, and the little dictionary became something of a pest. 
All that changed last year when I obtained  the Palm version of the dictionary. I reviewed it then, and thought it was a great deal. 
The new version is even better. It comes with high-resolution fonts if you do not have a Chinese operating system, and will handle both simplified and traditional Chinese characters.
 The new fonts look very spiffy indeed if you are using something like the Sony Clie, which I am. It allows you to create custom dictionaries, and finally supports Palm OS 5. It is also possible to store the big dictionaries on a memory card, thus saving some of that precious Ram. 
 The new version supports the creation of Flash Cards for those who wish to test themselves.  The idea is great, but the execution needs more work.
 I found the whole process of creating a set of Flash Cards rather too complex for it to be of any use. 
Nevertheless, if you  persevere and get it to work, learning more Chinese  is a great way to spend your time on that boat to the outlying islands.  
Of course, the pronunciation is all Mandarin, not Cantonese. 
I had some minor problems with my registration, but these were quickly solved with a phone call. The customer support has been nothing less than terrific as well. This is the kind of software the Palm was meant to be running.  
You can get the software from http://store.yahoo.com/pleco-store/ oxconenchind.html.



Palm's spiffy new version of a dictionary