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User Submitted Sharp Electronics PW-E550 Electronic Dictionary Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-04-20 The best electronic dictionary The Sharp PW-E550 dictionary is very broad, I have until now (I have been using it for over a year and it is always in my backpack) come up with only one word that I couldn't find there. Especially the explanations for the origins of words is fascinating. Not to forget the encyclopaedic entries on famous people, states, countries, etc. I previously had tried a franklin something electronic dictionary, it kept annoying me because it had almost none of the words I looked up and I needed to reset it often. The Sharp dictionary also has the pronunciation of words with phonetic symbols, which I find much more useful than some mumbling of the words by a speaker. The battery lifetime is quite long, too. I love this dictionary and I strongly recommend it if you want to enrich your english vocabulary and are interested in etymology. Date: 2007-04-10 Amazing! I was truly amazed at the details this dictionary had. It exceeded the old one I had been using and is better than the ones found on-line. Date: 2007-04-07 A pleasure to use -- great keyboard, fast lookups, compact size This Sharp electronic dictionary is the perfect pocket companion for those times when you don't have your laptop, or a dictionary handy. The interface is intuitive and the keyboard is amongst the best I've ever used on this type of device. Moreover, the access times for Dictionary and Thesaurus lookups are very fast; the "phrase search" function is a little bit slower, but not intolerable. There are also "crossword puzzle" and "anagram solver" functions that I have not used, but I imagine work fine. Another positive for this product is the fact that it uses a single AAA battery, not some watch-type cell battery. The only negative is that it does not have a backlight for the screen, but neither do many of the other comparable dictionaries. Hopefully Sharp will smarten up and put that in a future version of the PW-E550. I believe this is BY FAR the best electronic dictionary you can get for less than $100, and no, I do not work for Sharp Electronics. Date: 2007-03-27 nice compact dictionary It's a very handy tool when it comes to reading. The control is easy and it has the most updated vocabulary. It gives you examples on how the word is used in context besides the definition. Date: 2007-03-27 Fantastic I'm loving this e dictionary - very user friendly, very fast, so helpful for a budding writer like myself who needs to check up words every minute. I wish the it had a pronunciation key - that's my one and only concern which is why I gave a 4 instead of 5.
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