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The home of high quality dictionary software for Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices. Please navigate the menu on the top of this page to the area of your interest.

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Palm OS Software

Palm OS English Dictionary - A-Lex

 Palm OS English-Chinese Dictionary - Yinghan

Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Software

Windows Mobile English Dictionary - A-Lex

 Windows Mobile English-Chinese Dictionary - Yinghan

Recent Product Announcements

  1. March 17, 2007: Updates to Windows Mobile A-Lex 2.6w release. Highlights of the update: root word detection; better support of devices with different aspect ration; support of "no match" message turn-off option; proper menu graying; input character validation;
  2. Feb 15, 2007: Release of Yinghan 3.0W for Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC - Click here to see Pocket PC Yinghan product, download information and promotional pricing.
  3. Jan 27, 2007: Release of A-Lex 2.6W for Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC - This version of A-Lex has added the speech synthesis capability. Over 70,000 headwords can be synthesized. Click here to see Pocket PC A-Lex product and download information.
  4. Jan 20, 2007: Release of Yinghan 3.0. Click here to see Yinghan 3.0 update description. Download Yinghan 3.0.
  5. Jan 15, 2007: Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Release of A-Lex 2.51W - The Windows Mobile Pocket PC version of A-Lex has finally arrived. Over 140,000 headwords, extensive word relation database, phonetic spelling, wild card search, easy to use, etc. Click here to see Pocket PC A-Lex product and download information.
  6. Nov 11, 2006: Release of A-Lex 2.5 - This release renders dictionary definition in rich text. Click here to see A-Lex update description. Please note that this version only works with late Palm devices (e.g. Treo 650, 700p, 680, TX, etc.) that support HTML library. For the older devices, please use A-Lex 2.4.
  7. Oct 28, 2006: Pre-beta Release of mobile-device friendly web-based dictionary at http://www.abstractrd.com/w or http://www.abstractrd.com/lookup.html
  8. Sep 3, 2006: Release of Yinghan 2.9. Click here to see Yinghan 2.9 update description. Download Yinghan 2.9.
  9. Jul 14, 2006: Release of A-Lex 2.4. Click here to see A-Lex update description. Download A-Lex 2.4.
  10. Apr 8, 2006: Release of Chinese Phonetic Reference DA (Desktop Accessory) 3.0. This DA allows one to look up the phonetic spelling of a Big5 Chinese character in Pinyin or Zhuyin. It also works with Abstract's Chinese synthesis package to synthesize Mandarin Chinese.
  11. Mar 19, 2006: Release of Yinghan/Hanying 2.8. Click here to see Yinghan update description.
  12. Feb 22, 2006: A-Lex 2.3 New display format for example sentences. Better DA support for Treo smart phones and TX. Improved the stretched and landscape display experience.
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