14 DAY TRIAL // I don't know exactly what happened to the paperback dictionary, but there seem to be more and more electronic manufacturers that reinvent it in the digital way, of course.
On the outside, the device features a pen-based touchscreen and also several easy to use hot keys. According to the company, the item comes with improved search functions and delivers all the search results and not only the index of the words, but also from a usage part or traditional explanation attached to the word.
Take the Nurian X10 for example. The e-dictionary is a dual LCD one, that might be a little heavy with its language support in English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. When using it, you practically search for a keyword on a Web search engine, which looks like checking for the correct spelling of words nowadays. You just type it on Google and count the number of entries.
On the outside, the X10 dictionary sports a 4.1-inch and a 320 x 240 smooth touchscreen. It also has a second outer OLED screen, which elegantly displays the time and date. Just as we were expecting, this device comes packed with a lot more than it looks like. It also has an FM tuner, voice recording capabilities, it can view images and read txt files.
For the busy ones, the manufacturers added a useful scheduler. It comes compatible with XviD and a complementary codec which can play most videos as well as MP3 audio formats, for up to 11 hours on the 1600mAh battery and up to 5 hours for the video content.
And you can enjoy the multimedia content playback and voice recording functions easily, without opening the dictionary. On the display, the user can view the time, the title of the song, the preset radio channel and even a certain word that you've looked up in the dictionary before.
The Nurian X10 dual LCD e-dictionary comes in orange and black color versions and its price tag is somewhere around 350 bucks.