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

Also available for:

See also: Free demo, Ordering,
English-German, English-French,
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 110,000 translations and 80,000 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.
- '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 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.

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 verb tables (of which a few lines are shown here:)

| Independent Reviews

** Collins English-Spanish **
"I've been using this Spanish/English Dictionary for over 8 months now and I love it. When I bought it I knew very little Spanish and was in a situation where I spoke to someone practically every day for over an hour who did not speak any English at all. This program was a life saver and is definitely the way to go if your serious about learning Spanish! Many times when looking up a word I found the examples in real usage very helpful. Sometimes one word means different things depending on how it's used. True it doesn't have verb tables and is pricey, but for me it's definitely been worth the money (you just can't look up words this fast in paper dictionary). As long as my upgrade for the next version (with verb tables) is free I'll be keeping my rating at 5 stars."

"This program was a life saver and is definitely the way to go if your serious about learning Spanish! Many times when looking up a word I found the examples in real usage very helpful. Sometimes one word means different things depending on how it's used."

User reviews at PalmGear.com
"Great product. I have paper dictionaries, a desktop dictionary on my Mac, handheld 'Spanish-English' translators, etc, etc and I find this MUCH better. Very easy to use and right to the point. The best way to use it is to install BOTH the English-Spanish/Spanish-English translators and the software will go back and forth between them. Great if you have a friend that speaks the other language. You can both use it. The only downside is that is needs more than 2MB to do this trick."
User reviews at Handango
"This is the only serious dictionary I have seen available for the palmpilot. When I say "serious" I mean that it has definitions for each word rather than simple translations."
"Excellent - A professionally written product that has no Palm rival.This is quality software that's well worth the money."
Read these and other independent reviews

See also:

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

| Technical Details

Languages | Requirements | Distribution | Suitable for

The application runs in English and Spanish

Each dictionary book requires about 1200k RAM to install.
Running the application requires at least 50k.

Available 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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