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Paragon Software Launches Six Most Popular Explanatory and Bilingual Merriam-Webster’s Dictionaries for Android Phones
Business Wire
Paragon Software Group, a leading software developer for mobile devices
and desktop computers, has launched the series of Merriam-Webster’s
bilingual and explanatory dictionaries for Android phones. The product
line includes
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh
Edition; Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged;
Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary; Merriam-Webster’s Pocket;
The
Merriam-Webster Dictionary; Merriam-Webster's English-French Dictionary and
Merriam-Webster's English-Spanish Dictionary
. The original
dictionary titles from America’s foremost publisher were adapted for the
mobile screen and supplemented with the new functionality providing
fastest definition look-up, audio pronunciations, finger-friendly
interface, ‘Search by Voice’ option (enabled by Google), ‘Word of the
Day’ widget and search option directly on the Home screen. Paragon’s
advanced SlovoEd engine compresses even the weightiest content to
minimal memory space. The traditional printed version of
Merriam-Webster’s
Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, for example, weighs
in at 12.5 pounds (5,67 kg), has 2,662 pages and measures 4 inches
(10.16 cm) thick, but occupies just ~25 Mb on your tiny mobile device.
Features:
- Word search option on the Home screen. The dictionary can be used as a search source in the phone’s Global search feature, search results will be shown in the ‘Quick Search Box’ widget .
- Morphology module to look-up words in any grammatical form.
- Search by voice to speak the word instead of typing it in the dictionary.
- Audio pronunciations
- Fuzzy Search
- Wildcard Search finds words even if the user does not know its exact spelling using “?” and “*” symbols to replace the missing.
- Integration with Flash Cards application to quiz the comprehension.
- Word of the day widget for the Home screen for daily word check. A random entry from the dictionary is changed daily.
- Installation on memory cards
- Hyperlinks between related articles and directions.
- Search History for the last 20 words looked up.
Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries for Android are available via download
from
http://www.penreader.com
or Android Market at
http://www.android.com/market/.
About Paragon Software Group
Paragon Software Group’s Smart Handheld Devices & Epocware divisions
offer software for a diverse classes of smartphones (Android, bada,
BlackBerry, iPhone, iPod touch, Java, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS) and
desktop PCs:
http://www.penreader.com
Copyright Business Wire 2010
2010-02-08 09:00:00
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