Ewan reviews the Merriam-Webster range of Dictionaries for Symbian OS smartphones, trying them out in detail on the Nokia E61i. See the review for links to UIQ versions. Summary? Slickly programmed and competent, they do what they say on the tin.
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This seems a little pointless. You can download the free Mobipocket eBook reader and purchase the dictionary, an encyclopedia, thesaurus or anything else in that format. Then, it's not only available on your Series60 smartphone but you can also use it on your PC. Plus, when the Symbian OS gets updated again and looses backwards compatability, you just download the latest version of the free reader and everything still works. You don't have to pay anybody for a software upgrade to read the dictionary that you have already paid for. Fancy switching to UIQ or WM6? Same thing. Download the free reader and carry on using the same eBooks.
Not only that, but the integration with the eBook reader means, if you're reading a book and don't know what a word means, you can look up it's definition from the dictionary using a built-in "lookup" function.
A dictionary does two things.
The first is give you the definition of a word.
The second is help you spell a word.
The first can be done by mobipocket as well as any dictionary program. The second can't, since you need to know how to spell the word, and type it in, before you can check your spelling. Dictionary programs (I guess this one would, msdict does as well) tend to filter words as you type the letters in.