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Runs on:
PalmOS 3.0 to 4.0
Languages:
English, French

Also available for:

See also: Free demo, Ordering,
English-German, English-Spanish,
English-Italian
Collins© Dictionaries are widely acclaimed for their excellence, their continuing innovation and for their tireless reflection of today's language. This innovative software package offers the complete Collins Paperback Edition, with over 100,000 translations and 70,000 references. It features a wide coverage in areas relevant to business and office automation, and will help users to better understand newspapers, magazines and contemporary literature.

Simple and easy to use, Collins dictionaries for Palm are ideal for students, businesspeople or travellers alike who need foreign vocabulary to understand or even to speak another language.

| Key features

- Collins bilingual dictionaries are useful for when travelling, dealing with foreign correspondence or when a single word is simply not enough.
- Touch-screen technology enables you to find the translation instantly, just by tapping on any word.
- Words can be looked up in just about any way: simply type a few letters, paste it (from another application) or browse through the dictionary.
- Previously looked up words can be found in the history list.
- 'Illustrative' and 'Essential' phrases with the context in which words are used are included to give you more insight into the language.
- Background information on English/French regular and irregular verbs.
- Clear and legible. You can adapt the display to show more or less detail, etc.

"I don't think I've ever seen a Palm OS application with a simpler interface...
The quality of the translations is excellent in both directions...
Collins is a fast and polished reference work. By leaving your paper dictionary at home you'll not only save time in word look-ups, you'll lighten your briefcase as well."
(PalmUser magazine issue 4)
by Anne Johnstone, PalmUser magazine

| Using the application

To find a word in the dictionary, simply start entering it. A few letters will usually suffice to find what you're looking for. You can always scroll per screen, dictionary word or line.

Click on any word on the screen, in either language, and the application immediately jumps to its dictionary entry (or its closest match).

The application offers other useful options like a "Word of the Day" and a list of the most important regular and irregular English and French verb tables (of which a few lines are shown here).

"Absolute best in its class: this is the premier Palm OS French-English/English-French dictionary. It is actually more expansive (70,000 words) than the print edition of the pocket-sized "Collins Gem French-English Dictionary", which I've used for years. The price may seem a bit high; but for those you who can (or wish to) 'parle couramment le français', it's the superior choice and worth every penny." (Rating: 5 out of 5) Customer from NY - Handango reviews
"A terrific dictionary. Translations are excellent, and in two weeks in France, I couldn't find a single French word not in the dictionary. Contains entries for conjugated verbs, which is quite helpful for French novices like me." Chris Kennedy - PalmGear reviews
"Best of the category software. Includes the critical gender of nouns (omitted in other dictionaries I've d/led & discarded) & oh, so much more!..."
"As an AP French teacher who recently obtained a HandSpring Visor, I was flabber-
gasted to find the very same dictionary that I have my students purchase available for the Palm OS. This is a highly nuanced dictionary which includes phrases in its entries to aid the translator in avoiding typical pitfalls. It's the best thing on my Palm--and indispensable when I'm reading Le Monde on AvantGo. Well worth the space it fills up. (Oh--and it even remembers the recent lookups so you can go back and review!)" James LeBaron
"This is a workable, full-featured French/English and English/French dictionary, and a good one; I wouldn't bother fooling around with another. It has 100,000 entries, which means lots of words, full definitions, and even verb charts. You give up nothing in exchange for convenience when you run this dictionary on your Palm." John Schwartz
"I don't know how to express my feelings. Only I can say, it solve and easy my working. Very rich explanation of lexicon. Really worth to try, then use it for your job." Steve Chin
"A terrific dictionary - comprehensive translations plus context and usage. I am finding this dictionary indispensable, because it goes beyond mere literal translation to supply context and usage. For example, when I looked up "epingle" (pin), it also supplied the phrase "tirer son epingle du jeu" (play one's game well), which I hadn't even realized to be the phrase in the text that I had been looking at. Similarly, look up "rendez-vous", and it lets you know that "prendre" is the appropriate verb to use for "making a date". It is well worth the space it occupies on my Palm V."
"...C'est en fait un véritable outil d'assistance pour mieux comprendre les journaux, les magazines, la littérature contemporaine et aussi les mots usuels des logiciels anglais. Mot traduit très clairement affiché et avec plusieurs sens - Possibilité d'afficher un mot au hasard pour apprendre...."
Read these and other independent reviews

See also:

English-German | English-Spanish | English-Italian | Michelin Red Guide

| Technical Details

Languages | Requirements | Distribution | Suitable for

The application runs in English and French

Each dictionary book requires about 1200k RAM to install.
Running the application requires at least 25k.

Available on
CD-ROM
Price: £29.99
and by
immediate download
Price: US$ 34.99

Palm m100, m105
Palm m125
Palm m500**, m505* **
Palm III, IIIx, IIIe, IIIxe, IIIc*
Palm V, Vx
Palm VII, VIIx
Visor, Visor Deluxe
Visor Neo
Visor Platinum
Visor Pro
Visor Edge
Visor Prism*
Sony CLIÉ**
Sony CLIÉ Color* **
Qualcomm pdQ
IBM Workpad
TRGPro
HandEra 330
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* in colour
** will not run from your SD/MMC card or memory stick

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