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Originally Posted by AlPe
Big news on dictionaries (including an English one) coming next days... stay tuned guys  |
Thanks for the heads up. Looking forward to it. Hopefully we won't have to sign a NDA and be unable to discuss the beta-test openly.
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Originally Posted by AlPe
What you suggest (ad hoc dictionary selection, based on the word --- e.g. a French word inside an English book) seems too complicated for this device. What about a word that might appear in dozens of dictionaries, like "pizza"? You should load all those dictionaries' indexes into memory to look for the word, there is simply not enough RAM for that.
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Was waiting a little bit for a reply 'til something bigger showed up (like your anouncement of something happening soon
). I did not mean automatic translation more like a menu option or a button when you look up in dictionary - if explanation does not make sence, hit the "translate this from" and you select the language next, and see the translation. Even though I think the device should be able to look up e.g. 5 translation dictionaries at once and simultanously show what it translates to each. You undererestimate how little work it takes to look up a word in a dictionary. Only because the e-ink appears to react slow, does not mean that the lookup of the word probably takes less time than a full refresh of the screen.
Check out how fast the french dictionary show up with a result. Unless the Odyssey cheats and already starts looking up a word while it still waits and sees if you press the word long enough ...