My Palm PDA goes almost everywhere with me, and one of its wonderful features is the ability to carry vast amounts of data, including many dictionaries. Sure beats the days when I would carry book-versions of dictionaries with me when travelling, and I like being able to look up words when out-and-about rather than having to wait until I get home or to a computer.

My currently installed dictionary for German is the one from Ultralingua. It has a reasonably clean interface and an excellent database of about 350 000 words. Some technical words are missing, as well as names of some trees and birds, but otherwise, I have found it to be adequate to my needs. It has a fairly extensive range of phrases associated with headwords, which is something that a number of competing mobile dictionaries did not offer. My purchasing decision was based on the database as well as their payment options, as I prefer using Paypal to credit cards online. My only other concern with the software is that the search feature is rather slow, and it is sometime quicker to use the Palm OS Global Find rather than the dictionary's own search.

Of course, if you are near an Internet-connected computer and want access to German dictionaries, then please make use of my collection of online German dictionaries.

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