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• Hi I just happened upon your website by chance. The software that you have on here is exactly what I'm looking for. I would like to use a PDA as an English-Japanese dictionary. I'm currently looking at PDA's right now and am thinking about picking up an HP Ipaq 110 or 210 which comes with Windows 6 Classic. Would Classic be compatible with your software?

  Posted by Brendan S on 2008-01-21 08:16:46 UTC

• Hi Brendan,
  Windows Mobile 6 Classic should be compatible (as I don't have either device I cannot guarantee it, but I've tested in the Windows Mobile 6 Classic emulator and that works). Pocket Dictionary only doesn't work on Smartphones (without a touch screen), which is Windows Mobile 6 Standard. Both Classic and Professional should work fine.
  
  Looking at your choices, I would recommend the iPAQ 210 if you can afford it. It has a 480x640 pixels display (192DPI) and the extra resolution really pays off in readability, even more so with Japanese fonts.

  Posted by Sven Groot on 2008-01-21 08:28:26 UTC

• hi i was initially using the old pocket dictionary which was using wm2003se and it works fine and great thank you. but now i've change my phone to a htc tytn II with wm6 pro. it somehow manage to start the program but with error therefore. the program request for a stop before i could start to use it.
  
  i hope this piece of information is useful for your further development.

  Posted by jiaheng on 2008-01-27 12:07:12 UTC

• hi i was initially using the old pocket dictionary which was using wm2003se and it works fine and great thank you. but now i've change my phone to a htc tytn II with wm6 pro. it somehow manage to start the program but with error therefore. the program request for a stop before i could start to use it.
  
  i hope this piece of information is useful for your further development.

  Posted by jiaheng on 2008-01-27 12:08:57 UTC

• I also have the same problem as above (similar device Hermes 200/Tytn/ actually X01HT.
  I have managed to get the program to work once though if you want to try.
  following these steps 1.
  hard reset/clean install of WM 6 radio).
  2. Instal .Net Compact Framework 3.5.
  3. Install of Japnease fonts as explained on this site.
  4. Install of The kanji input from this site I dont know why it doesnt work without this, or why it did with it).
  
  Unfortunately as I need to use Japanese on my English OS. device the kanji input and font are not enough for me so I have other japanese enabling software installed (to read mail and other documents).
  With my current setup The program installs ok but launches with a whole list of errors. I have been unable to get it to work since.
  
  Even on WM5 Japanese version, the software only worked for a short period of time (v.1.1 and 1.2) before becomimg unstable/ unusable/ crashing WM 5, requiring hard resetting, reinstalling and going through the cycle again and again.
  
  Its a shame because it is an excellent piece of software if/when it works. Despite its simplicity it can do much more than proprietry software form some companies. The only issue is reliability, otherwise Im sure people would be willing to buy this.
  Please please develop it so it works properly. I really want to have this software!

  Posted by Hamid Abassalty on 2008-02-28 05:27:50 UTC

• Hamid, I'm sorry you're having so much trouble with Pocket Dictionary. Unfortunately, as I cannot reproduce the issues, I also cannot fix them. Pocket Dictionary doesn't exhibit any instability on my own Windows Mobile 5 device, nor does it have any problems on the emulators for WM2003, WM5 and WM6.
  
  Since I cannot know what causes the issues on your device (I would guess it's some kind of modification made to WM by the creator of your device), I also cannot fix them, unless you can provide me with more detailed information.

  Posted by Sven Groot on 2008-03-17 06:57:12 UTC

• I have been using Pocket Dictionary for a while and it works great. The one issue I have is this - if I don't start up the Japanese Input right away, I can't get it to load later. In other words, my device defaults to the soft keyboard. If I change the input method to "Japanese Input" nothing happens. If I could figure out how to hack the registry to make Japanese Input the default, that would be an acceptable workaround for the issue. However, I can't figure that out either. Let me know if anyone else has this problem or if there is a solution.
  
  Thanks for the hard work!
  
  -Emmett

  Posted by Emmett on 2008-05-12 15:35:40 UTC

• Sven,
  
  Thanks so much for your work on the Pocket Dictionary & Japanese Input. It has been really great to have language tools like this on my PocketPC.
  
  One thing I can’t figure out is whether there is a way to change how the program sorts search results. Maybe it is there and I am just missing it. Currently it seems to be sorting alphabetically. This means the most intuitive and / or common entries don’t always come first. With the PocketPC’s small screen and few buttons, this can make quick and efficient lookups a problem.
  
  The program I use on my laptop (JWPce - http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html) gives the option to sort using EDICT’s priority markers, which seems to work pretty well. Although it is not nearly as easy to use on the PocketPC as Pocket Dictionary, the JWPce is installable on Windows Mobile OS. If this is sort feature not present in Pocket Dictionary and you would consider adding it, Glenn might be able to share some code to get you headed in the right direction.
  
  Anyway, thanks again for you hard work.
  
  Colby

  Posted by Colby Weinhofer on 2008-08-07 23:42:06 UTC

• Great work. It's a shame it don't work with accentuated letetrs like "é à è" though : (

  Posted by eer on 2009-01-05 16:05:32 UTC