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Nokia E66 Walkthrough – Dictionary

By Dotsisx on July 16, 2008

After yesterday’s walkthrough video with the E66′s calendar, today we tackle the new Dictionary that has been installed on the E66 as well as the E71. Personally, I find this a very nice move from Nokia: making sure that business users can pick their correct words is a great thought.

I had very little expectations when I fired the Dictionary the first time, but I admit I was blown away. This isn’t your typical “dictionary” and Nokia has done a fine job getting this one.

Based on Kernerman semi-bilingual dictionaries, the Dictionary has out-of-the-box support for Eng-Eng as languages, but you can easily browse through a huge list of supported languages and add the ones you want. All languages are free, and this should allow you to build a nice library if you travel frequently, or speak multiple languages. I added French and Arabic, just to see how they function, and was nicely surprised to see that not only I can see word explanations in each language, but can also set each of these as the source and target language, allowing me to translate anything back and forth between Arabic, French and English. Sweet!

Also you can easily access synonyms or translations through each word’s explanation (they are marked in bold), allowing you to check to see if this is the exact word you were looking for. Another nice feature is when you have chosen a word, you can listen to it in the local accent so that you don’t sound like a fool trying to pronounce it with your own accent. You can also remove any added languages as well as change the font size.

I hope I got you excited, now let’s check the walkthrough video:

All in all, this is one of the greatest dictionaries for S60 that I have tried so far, especially that it’s free and that you don’t have to download separate files for specific language-to-language translations, but just download a certain language and this will handle translations back and forth with any other languages. There is nothing I can fault this dictionary at, so kudos Nokia on a job well done. Now how about putting it on Nseries and other S60 handsets?

Oh and if you liked today’s video, make sure to come back tomorrow for a walkthrough of the new homescreen features.

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  • http://symbian-life.blogspot.com/ Ravindra

    Hi Rita,I found this dictionary engine on a forum and it is running well on my N95 8GB.

  • http://symbian-life.blogspot.com Ravindra

    Hi Rita,I found this dictionary engine on a forum and it is running well on my N95 8GB.

  • Merlin

    This is indeed a welcome addition in the E71, I was very pleased by the efficiency. I felt a little screwed at first because I bought many Collins dictionnary for my E50, and this one came free in any language I need (I personnaly donwloaded french and german in addition to english :-) ).

    I have one question though: is it necessary to download the corresponding voice files in order to get the words pronouced in the corresponding language ? I did so, but perphaps it isn’t necessary, thus I will remove them and free some space on my phone…

  • Merlin

    This is indeed a welcome addition in the E71, I was very pleased by the efficiency. I felt a little screwed at first because I bought many Collins dictionnary for my E50, and this one came free in any language I need (I personnaly donwloaded french and german in addition to english :-) ).

    I have one question though: is it necessary to download the corresponding voice files in order to get the words pronouced in the corresponding language ? I did so, but perphaps it isn’t necessary, thus I will remove them and free some space on my phone…

  • http://www.worldofphones.net adityasinghvi

    Slowly but surely Nokia is building S60. This latest attempt shows that Nokia has indeed thought about what a user might want with a business phone. In a few years I’m sure S60 will have multiple versions tailor made to work under different environments.

    But one thing I agree on with you Rita, is that the applications which are free, should be available across the series.
    A Nseries user is equally in need of a dictionary. After *all* its not only the Eseries holder who goes abroad a lot!

  • http://www.adityasphones.wordpress.com Aditya Singhvi

    Slowly but surely Nokia is building S60. This latest attempt shows that Nokia has indeed thought about what a user might want with a business phone. In a few years I’m sure S60 will have multiple versions tailor made to work under different environments.

    But one thing I agree on with you Rita, is that the applications which are free, should be available across the series.
    A Nseries user is equally in need of a dictionary. After *all* its not only the Eseries holder who goes abroad a lot!

  • Cheung Yuen Wong

    Nokia have always been providing more “valuepacks” for the E-series than for the N-series when it comes to useful applications.

    Just take a look at the Download! on your phone.
    Whereas the N95′s menu was broadened after a while the N82′s menu still leaves the same few applications that are there.
    (Seen several discussions on Download! vs. Apple Store so won’t go into that one)

    It’s true that N-users also wants dictionaries, but we can get the MS Dicts which offers great value, though some of them are a bit pricey.

    There are also tons of free java dictionaries out there so I wouldn’t say that the varieties are few.

  • Cheung Yuen Wong

    Nokia have always been providing more “valuepacks” for the E-series than for the N-series when it comes to useful applications.

    Just take a look at the Download! on your phone.
    Whereas the N95′s menu was broadened after a while the N82′s menu still leaves the same few applications that are there.
    (Seen several discussions on Download! vs. Apple Store so won’t go into that one)

    It’s true that N-users also wants dictionaries, but we can get the MS Dicts which offers great value, though some of them are a bit pricey.

    There are also tons of free java dictionaries out there so I wouldn’t say that the varieties are few.

  • Cheung Yuen Wong

    Forgot that for those of you who already have this dictionary.
    There are some more available from:
    http://europe.nokia.com/mobiledictionary

  • Cheung Yuen Wong

    Forgot that for those of you who already have this dictionary.
    There are some more available from:
    http://europe.nokia.com/mobiledictionary

  • Cheung Yuen Wong

    I see that in your post you mention that you installed Arabic on your phone, but mustn’t your phone support this to be viewable?

    As far as I know you can only install two additional dictionaries at the same time. That being a total of three.

    I can see why they have chosen this as the dictionaries are free.
    However you won’t be able to use it as MS Dict with several dictionaries whenever you want.

  • Cheung Yuen Wong

    I see that in your post you mention that you installed Arabic on your phone, but mustn’t your phone support this to be viewable?

    As far as I know you can only install two additional dictionaries at the same time. That being a total of three.

    I can see why they have chosen this as the dictionaries are free.
    However you won’t be able to use it as MS Dict with several dictionaries whenever you want.

  • http://dotsisx.blogspot.com/ Dotsisx

    Cheung Yuen Wong,
    Actually I was thinking that installing an arabic dictionary would require my handset to be compatible, but it installed and worked fine, at least in english-to-arabic translation, although I have an E66 borrowed from WomWorld that doesn’t support arabic. I honestly don’t remember using the arabic-to-english, and I have sent the E66 home so I’m sorry I can’t answer that.
    And yes, you can only install 3 languages at a time (english + 2 others) but it’s not that bad, eh, I mean who needs more than 3 languages at a time (other than professional translators)?
    As for the debate on the other free dictionaries, they don’t come built-in, and honestly having something built-in is MILES better than adding 3rd-party, because it’s more accessible to the average consumer. Plus the out-of-the-box experience is improved due to this.

    Merlin,
    I didn’t ask myself that question, and as I said to Cheung, I no longer have the E66 so I can’t answer it now. If you try it, do tell us what happens ;)

    Aditya,
    I am more of an Nseries user, and the dictionary is amongst the first things I install on any handset, so yes it would be a welcome addition to any series and not just Nseries.

  • http://dotsisx.blogspot.com Dotsisx

    Cheung Yuen Wong,
    Actually I was thinking that installing an arabic dictionary would require my handset to be compatible, but it installed and worked fine, at least in english-to-arabic translation, although I have an E66 borrowed from WomWorld that doesn’t support arabic. I honestly don’t remember using the arabic-to-english, and I have sent the E66 home so I’m sorry I can’t answer that.
    And yes, you can only install 3 languages at a time (english + 2 others) but it’s not that bad, eh, I mean who needs more than 3 languages at a time (other than professional translators)?
    As for the debate on the other free dictionaries, they don’t come built-in, and honestly having something built-in is MILES better than adding 3rd-party, because it’s more accessible to the average consumer. Plus the out-of-the-box experience is improved due to this.

    Merlin,
    I didn’t ask myself that question, and as I said to Cheung, I no longer have the E66 so I can’t answer it now. If you try it, do tell us what happens ;)

    Aditya,
    I am more of an Nseries user, and the dictionary is amongst the first things I install on any handset, so yes it would be a welcome addition to any series and not just Nseries.

  • Cheung Yuen Wong

    Thanks for the answer, too bad that you don’t quite remember but that’s ok.

  • Cheung Yuen Wong

    Thanks for the answer, too bad that you don’t quite remember but that’s ok.

  • Vince

    Ravindra,
    Where did you find the dictionary engine? I have been looking for it all morning, but with little luck!

  • Vince

    Ravindra,
    Where did you find the dictionary engine? I have been looking for it all morning, but with little luck!

  • Vince

    Don’t worry, I found it. Though I now need to learn how to self certify and app ;)

  • Vince

    Don’t worry, I found it. Though I now need to learn how to self certify and app ;)

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2008/09/e71-they-learned-and-improved.html E71 – They Learned And Improved

    [...] and Contacts have been revamped to make use of the bigger landscape screen. The E71 also brings the new Dictionary application, the new Encryption and Intranet features and a handful of free software licenses (Advanced Call [...]

  • daved47

    What are talking about ???

  • Cititorulx

    Did you know if there exist a version of this software for blackberry ? Thanks

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