Concise Oxford English Dictionary. The most authoritative English dictionary, with up-to-date coverage of more than 240,000 words, phrases, and meanings, including 900 new words. Features: English audio pronunciations, Dictionary installation on memory cards, Hyperlinks between related articles, Search History to see the last 20 translations.

Price: $14.95

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Features:

Concise Oxford English Dictionary Android App loads an entire dictionary with some word pronounciations in your pocket. There is a German language version as well. Please Note: to use the audible pronounciations you must first install the sound pack, recommended to install to SD Card. The spoken dialet varies; meaning some speakers have accents, some are women, some are men.

To benchmark the depth of words we searched for the 2009 National Spelling Bee winning word “Laodicean”… it was there! But didn’t find the longest word in English Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (try saying that 3 times fast… well try once). Probably because it’s a factitious word.

Usefulness:

Altough there are plenty of free online dictionaries, Concise Oxford English Dictionary Android App is useful when you don’t have an Internet connection and need word definitions (say… while traveling on a plane).

Ease of Use:

The app is easy and straight forward though exhibits slight user experience quirks with using the “Back” button on the phone, whereas the “Back” action native to the app requires two tapps… Menu > Back/Forward.

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