I put my money where my mouth is. You dropped it to $9.99 and I bought it
New review.
First Ill say thanks for dropping the price down to $9.99. I bought it so I kept my word. Needs some improvements so your Dictionary/Thesaurus is easier to use.
1. Just like in your Conjugations section where you start to type and it narrows down the choices. The dictionary AND thesaurus ought to have this feature. I had this feature when I was using my Treo 650 with the 995 Dict (which was incidentally also $9.99) and take a look at Dictionary.app in both Tiger/Leopard as another example. Both of them allow you to narrow down the search as you type it in. This is particularly useful when Im not the best speller and Im trying to look up the word "apocryphal" for example.
2. Once I find a word in the dictionary I may want to look up the synonym or antonym. In order to do this I have to go back out of the Dictionary and enter in Thesaurus, then retype the word. Again take a look at the implementation in Dictionary.app in Leopard. A single button will allow you to switch from the Dictionary to the Thesaurus without the to retype the word.
Making these two simple improvements will give your app more polish and give your customers a more useful/enjoyable experience.
My 2 cents.
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Old review.
I bought a dictionary for my Treo 650 two years back for $9.99 and used it frequently. It was totally worth it.
Mac OSX Tiger and Leopard come built in with the Oxford dictionary and Thesaurus, which I use almost daily.
I think the iPhone should have a free download of the Oxford dictionary since Apple already licensed it from Oxford.
Maybe some bright person will grab the data from /Library/Dictionaries/New Oxford American Dictionary.dictionary
and then place a skin and a simple UI for the iPhone version and put it for free on the App store.
$20.00 is more than Im willing to pay. Drop it to a more reasonable level and then we can talk. Right now its overpriced.
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