Posted in Japanese Dictionaries, Japanese Language, Reviews on Feb 8th, 2012 10 Comments »
Casio has released their 2012 lineup of electronic dictionaries. The other three makers of electronic dictionaries in Japan- Canon, Sharp, and Seiko, are now primarily using lithium ion batteries in their dictionaries making them basically impossible to ship out of Japan because of the ban on lithium ion batteries on cargo planes here. So it’s [...]
Posted in Reviews on Sep 21st, 2011 No Comments »
I bought the Happy Hacking Professional 2 Keyboard back in December of 2006 and wrote a glowing review of it here. A few years ago I switched to the Topre Realforce103UB, but that’s essentially the same keyboard with a larger footprint. (I wanted Function keys, arrows, and a 10-key pad.) I still use my HHKB [...]
Posted in Japanese Dictionaries, Japanese Language, Reviews on Feb 21st, 2011 2 Comments »
Kenkyusha’s New Japanese English Dictionary (新和英大辞典 第五版) is hands down the best Japanese to English dictionary available either in print or in an electronic dictionary. When I was choosing words to use as comparisons between the Japanese dictionaries for these reviews, I couldn’t find any words contained in a Japanese Dictionary that weren’t also in [...]
Posted in Japanese Dictionaries, Japanese Language, Reviews on Feb 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Taishukan Publishing’s Genius Japanese to English Dictionary (2nd Edition – listed as containing 82,000 entries) is a well-known text found in many Japanese electronic dictionaries, including older Canon Wordtank models V320, V823, and V923, many Sharp Brain and Papyrus models including the PW-AC10, PW-A7000, PW-AT790, etc. Neither Seiko nor Casio have included the Genius Japanese [...]
Posted in Japanese Dictionaries, Japanese Language, Reviews on Feb 18th, 2011 1 Comment »
Different brands of electronic dictionaries generally include different texts than others. For example the new compact Wordtanks have the Wisdom series, the Sharp often use the Genius series, and many of the Casio models include the Progressive Japanese to English dictionary. The only information given about them is the number of entries they contain, but [...]
Posted in Japanese Dictionaries, Japanese Language, Reviews on Feb 3rd, 2011 4 Comments »
Casio has finally released their flagship professional model for 2011, the Casio Ex-Word DATAPLUS 6 XD-B10000, which replaces the already unavailable XD-A10000. The XD-B9800, replacing the slightly less expensive XD-A9800 will be released in another week along with all the foreign language models. The main difference between the new XD-B series and the old XD-A [...]
Posted in Japanese Dictionaries, Japanese Language, Reviews on Jan 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
At the end of of 2009 Canon released the Wordtank S502, a compact and inexpensive dictionary with stripped down content and functionality. It looked at first glance almost like a graphic calculator and I didn’t pay it any mind. Then in August 2010 Canon and Sharp simultaneously released a pair of similarly shaped inexpensive dictionaries. [...]