Philips Optical Worm 12gb 12in 1024b/s (LM6000) Media

Pros: Fast to define, can correct mistakes, antonyms and synonyms, roots of words

Cons: Some words not found

The Bottom Line: Great dictionary for increasing vocabulary skills.

Review: Back in high school, when I was studying for the SATs, this came in very handy. Whenever I saw a word that I did not know, I would type it into the dictionary, and it would give me the definition promptly. If I spelled it wrong, it would find ...

Pros: Large, hard-plastic, easy-to-use keys. Impressively comprehensive grammar guide and supplementary game assortment. Decent "speaking" ability.

Cons: The approximately 130,000-word lexicon is far from unabridged. Too bulky and heavy for most pockets.

The Bottom Line: Though this model relies on "early-nineties" technology, that's not altogether bad. Its largish, hard-plastic keys are durable/easy-to-use. And its display is sizable/legible. But its lexicon "only" comprises about 130,000 words.

Review: I don't precisely recall the year, but sometime in the early nineties I purchased this electronic speaking dictionary. At the time, the combination of a respectably sizable (albeit far from unabridged) lexicon and its "speaking" ability made it ...