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User Submitted Sharp Electronics PW-E550 Electronic Dictionary Reviews (cont...)Date: 2010-01-19 It's new so.......... It's new so I don't have an opinion on battery life or durability. So far, this is the best gadget I've ever purchased. It's great to have bedside when you're reading at night. No more getting up and fumbling around for my large and heavy dictionary. It's expensive but I'd like to send one to everybody in my family. Date: 2010-01-17 scrabble Too big to hold in one hand. Display light is poor and hard to read. Buttons are in wrong sequence and not easy to use. Keyboard is stiff and require too much pressure to be effective. Menu is complicated and require a lot of memorizing. Date: 2009-12-27 Very good but not great electronic dictionary The chief shortcoming of this device from my standpoint is that it lacks critical features which facilitate vocabulary building. For example, it does not have the ability to create favorite word lists. This would allow repetitive review of words one has difficulty with. Another needed utility is the ability to search by word root, e.g. find all the words with "rogare" (to ask) as the root. Grouping words by common root is very helpful in building a large vocabulary. So, as a vocabulary builder the device falls short. However, it performs well in terms of ease of use and rapid word look up. Overall, the thesaurus and grammer sections are excellent and there is much that can be learned from this device. Date: 2009-12-23 Love It Just Bought Another One This is the best electronic dictionary I have ever owned. It requires only one AAA battery and the original battery lasted for over 1-½ years. All definitions are easy to understand and the thesaurus is loaded with tons of words. The display is very easy to read. There are so many great features with this incredible electronic dictionary that I just bought another one for my 11-year-old granddaughter. When she comes to visit, she is always asking to use mine. Now my 9 year old GD is asking for one to. Date: 2009-12-17 Sharp Electronics PW-E550 Electronic Dictionary This is the best electronic dictionary you can buy. The Franklin bookman and other Franklin dictionary productions have had a long standing relationship with Merriam-Webster. The best dictionary you can get is an Oxford dictionary. Websters New World Student Dictionary is an easier dictionary with simular but less quality. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate an electronic dictionary that uses it. Merriam and Webster, together created a series of dictionaries that are unfortunately not worth the paper they are printed on. Basically, any dictionary with the name Merriam in it is crap. I'm an engineer that can spot, bad product engineering. This product was well thought out and tested before it was put into production. Everything from the packaging, color, keyboard layout, keys, functions, etc. The manual is printed in China, however it is not a multilingual book with two pages of english. Refreshingly, it was written entirely in english by a literate person. What I like best about the product is, that it is written for a mature person in mind, it fits conveniently in your shirt pocket, its keyboard click tone is unobtrusive and can be shut off, it doesn't verbalize words (most of us can use a pronunciation guide), the auto-power shutoff can be set for 3, 5, 10 or 20 minutes, its LCD contrast is adjustable, you can delete word history for all the books or just the one you want. The only thing that's a little wierd is that it doesn't shut off automatically when you close it. It times out. Having an option on it for that would be good. See my YouTube demo. Search Sharp PW-E550...
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