I am thinking of moving from the Palm with the Oxford Dictionary on it, to iPhone or iPod Touch.
I make heavy use of the translate - retranslate method of checking that I am using the right word: going English to Chinese, I look up the English word, and then check by highlighting what I guess to be the closest Chinese equivalent, switching to the Chinese, which then shows up the Chinese characters with English translations.
The Oxford dictionary is the only one, as I understand it, that is the dictionary contains both the Chinese ->English and English ->Chinese parts. I see that the Oxford Dictionary is no longer used on Pleco software, and than none of the other dictionaries go both ways.
Were I to go for the iPod or the iPhone, would I lose this facility?
I make heavy use of the translate - retranslate method of checking that I am using the right word: going English to Chinese, I look up the English word, and then check by highlighting what I guess to be the closest Chinese equivalent, switching to the Chinese, which then shows up the Chinese characters with English translations.
The Oxford dictionary is the only one, as I understand it, that is the dictionary contains both the Chinese ->English and English ->Chinese parts. I see that the Oxford Dictionary is no longer used on Pleco software, and than none of the other dictionaries go both ways.
Were I to go for the iPod or the iPhone, would I lose this facility?