palm tungsten t5

[luckthunder]

Hi,

I've got a Tungsten T5 (chinese version) and I am looking for a chinese-english/english-chinese dictionary (freeware).

Any experiences/suggestions?

Greetings.

luckthunder

[sui.generis]

Any experiences/suggestions?

Forget the freeware, save up and buy PlecoDict.

[roddy]

I had a quick google and turned up this CEDICT on Palm page - but it doesn't seem to have been updated for years and may well not be compatible with newer OS's. There's also something called KDIC, which I think is Chinese-Chinese, but mention is made of using it with CEDICT here.

Roddy

PS If you can beg, borrow or steal the cash, Plecodict is worth every cent.

[randall_flagg]

I have to agree with Roddy! I have been using Plecodict for what, 6 months now? And I am truly loving it. Thanks again for suggesting this marvellous application, Roddy,

[roddy]

Ah, I'm sure I read about it on here - it would have been the users of Pleco's Oxford Dictionary who were first aware of it.

Anyway, the OP is looking for freeware stuff - anyone know any?

[mikelove]

If your T5 already has Chinese support built-in then KDIC would probably be your best bet - that page Roddy linked to has a free Chinese dictionary database for KDIC, and that combined with the Chinese OS built into your Palm should give you a serviceable dictionary setup. I haven't actually tried KDIC on a T5, but since your T5 already has a current Chinese OS on it it's unlikely that there would be any serious compatibility problems with the KDIC engine.

However, I should point out that KDIC technically isn't free - the author has generously chosen not to handicap the demo version of his software in any way, but if you use it a lot you really should pay the $9 registration fee (see http://www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/kei-k/Doc/English/register.htm). I don't know of any completely-free product for Chinese - there's a free all-in-one Palm Japanese dictionary at http://padict.sourceforge.net/ but nothing equivalent for Chinese AFAIK.

Or you could save up for PlecoDict, which I'd certainly agree is worth the money

[luckthunder]

I everybody, thanks a lot or your advices. You helped me a lot. KDIC is very useful and I will test PlecoDic (reading so many positive resonance, it seems to be the leading software). Thanks a lot again ...

Greetings.