As anybody who's used electronic dictionaries I can not imagine going back to using thick books. I bought my first electronic dictionary in 1996. Though not being a gadget guy I've lived happily until now without a PDA. Standard PDA functionality aka electronic organizer does not appeal to me, but PDA-based dictionaries do. I first tried it in 1999, when first color PDAs appeared in stores, but unfortunately I was not able to find a good Russian-English dictionary for Windows CE, so I returned that cool but useless toy to the store. I found at that time some electronic dictionary, but being disappointed with this product I did not consider it an option. Luckily this time after bying Palm-powered Sony NX60 the choice was better. As I said, I was very disappointed with that products primarily because of the database they use in their dictionaries. I think that instead of marketing buzz about 400,000 words people really want an accurate electronic version of some well-known conventional dictionary like Muller's or Apresyan's. That kind of dictionaries simply translate single words into single words without any regards to context. Their flat lists of "idioms" and "expressions" are not of much help either as you can not navigate through them, but only read.

As I found Multlex through the search engine I was sold almost immediately after seeing what they've built their database on. Finally somebody made a dictionary out of a professional linguistic publication. All I am trying to say is that you can not just pack 400,000 words (probably counting prepositions) into electronic memory and call it a dictionary.

UI is also much nicer, especially on Palm OS 5.0. The speed is great even when running everything from a memory stick. Having mentioned memory stick (or any other extension memory card) 10M databse of the Gold Edition is not a problem.

Overall I am completely satisfied with the product and I'll laugh at people that bought their $400 hardware-based dictionaries, when you can buy a top of the line multimedia-oriented PDA with Multilex for less money.

Alex Rogachevsky

"I have been using SlovoEd since 2000 on my Palm IIIxe (previously x). The new version combined with MultiLex has now appeared. From my point of view, it is the best way to obtain perfect dictionaries. For me, it is very convenient to use the bidirectional dictionaries Russian-English and Russian-German. They are working always fast, have a lot of references, a friendly interface and, what is very important, the support service is always online and ready to help. "

Viktor Belikow

"English-Russian Slovoed is very good and friendly program. It's so easy to use. The great features which other similar programs don't have are:

• it supports 4 Russian encodings,
• nice interface with dictionary in both ways,
• compressed database doesn't occupy too much of the memory space.

It is a pleasure to work with this program!"

Valentin Raksin, USA

"The dictionary leaves quite nice impression by forethought of the interface, comfortable work and amplitude of the dictionary bases in comparison to the anagogic programs of other firms, whose programs I used before. Practically, now it is not necessary for me to use the traditional dictionaries, as it used to happen before. Taking into consideration the volume of the dictionary bases, I was impressed by the speed of work of the dictionary. In my opinion, this is the best product of its class on the Russian market."

Veaceslav Cunev, Kentucky, USA

"I'm using Visor Deluxe with PalmOS for about 6 months. I bought it as any mobile organiser to control a flow of necessary data, which I need in my everyday life - telephon numbers, addresses, serials, etc. But after I got Russian language support system "PiLoc" and English-Russian-English dictionary "SlovoEd" for it I discovered many new features, very usefull to me.

With "PiLoc" and "SlovoEd" my Visor became so smart that now I can keep a small library of favorite Russian books just in my pocket. And with "SlovoEd" I can translate any word just in seconds. Especially I was impressed by new feature of new version of "SlovoEd", that allows me to find the meening of any word in English or Russian without leaving other active application. Now it is really very difficult to me to image my life without Visor and "SlovoEd".

Gleb Zhuravsky, Japan