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User Submitted Sharp Electronics PW-E550 Electronic Dictionary Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-02-29 Sharp PW-550 Electronic Dictionary This is a great product. Very easy to use and has most words and their derivations. I highly recommend this product. Date: 2008-02-25 Wonderful compact electronic dictionary We have owned the Sharp electronic dictionary for just a few weeks and we find it wonderful. It is easy to use, powerful and has become our "go to" dictionary for our frequent Scrabble games - much easier than lugging our 10 pound Oxford dictionary around. Date: 2008-02-23 Good product This was exactly what I wanted: A large vocabulary, definitions AND derivations, and ease of use. It does not have a 'speaking pronounciation' feature, which is good - that adds to cost and usually reduces the number of words defined. I'd rather have the cost in content that frills. I also like the fact that it includes foreign phrases. Finally, it is light and small. I got rid of my decades-old bulky dictionary, and like this much better. Date: 2008-02-23 Don't hesitate to buy this excellent product This is the best electronic dictionary you can buy. Its design is practically perfect, and the books it contains are not "pocket" editions; they are big, first-rate references that you wouldn't want to carry around with you (this dictionary is about the size of a Palm Pilot). It's much more convenient to use than running to your PC every time you want to look up a word. Check the prices of the references in the PW-E550 and you will see it is worth every penny. Sharp also markets similar models in the UK and Canada. Each has its own advantages. The Canadian and British models contain the Oxford Dictionary of English instead of the New Oxford American Dictionary, and one of the Canadian models (the PW-E560) also has the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary, one of the best French-English, English-French dictionaries available. Sharp electronic dictionaries have lots of useful features, but two of the best are the Quick View button and the Super Jump button. The Quick View button instantly gives you a condensed view of long entries so that you can easily navigate to the part of speech or precise sense you are looking for. The Super Jump button allows you to jump to the definition of a word that appears within an entry, and then return to the first entry. Let's hope Sharp is reading these rave reviews and decides to make more products like this. Date: 2008-01-30 Get this great device while you can but watch the price The volatility of this listing is truly amazing. When I first found their listing, Amazon no longer offered it, even through a 3rd party vendor. I ordered it from someone else, but after two weeks they still couldn't deliver, so I went back to Amazon and saw that they were again offering it at a very good price. So I canceled my other order and ordered it from Amazon. Then a week after I received it from them and had thoroughly mastered the device, I went up to Amazon to add a review and they weren't even accepting reviews anymore and they said the device wasn't available again! You couldn't even read any of the 81 reviews it said were available. The best I could do was start a discussion post. Today I went back up and now I see that Amazon it offering the device again, but for approximately twice what they originally charged me! At least all the reviews are back. Enough of criticizing Amazon's inconsistency. What about the device itself? If you're looking for an electronic dictionary, don't pass up a chance to get this one (if you can afford it!). I briefly flipped the pages through the manual, but the device itself is so intuitive, you don't have to read the manual to figure everything out. It has an extremely well design user interface! Whoever put this thing together really knew what they were doing. The quality of the interface extends to the physical packaging. In spite of disclaimers in the enclosed manual about the robustness of the device, it seems solidly constructed and well-balanced when it is open. It is not likely to tip over, as the bottom is heavier than the lid which contains the display. Everything has a nice, solid feel to it and the keys are plenty big enough for someone like myself who wears a size large glove. The buttons are color-coded and attractive. I could not be more pleased with the design of this device. But I will be careful not to get it wet! They go on and on about avoiding moisture, so I'm going to take them seriously and treat this thing with respect. Do that and I'm sure it will last virtually forever. I've had the hard copy of this dictionary since the first week it was available on the bookshelves, I think about six years ago. I have lots of dictionaries, and this is my favorite. Now to have it in electronic form is a dream come true. Plus it has other features. I especially like the grammar book it contains: pretty long articles that are very conversational, for such a device, which is better suited to small, concise entries, which the typical dictionary is likely to have. Still, a very welcome addition, this grammar book. I like the fact that you can set the display to two different resolutions. If you have bad eyesight you may have to use the larger type but if you have good corrective glasses the smaller type is perfectly legible and of course you get more information per screen. I also appreciate how low keyed the device packaging is: no loud self-advertising, just a down-to-business, practical interface.
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