Pleco for iPhone Demo - Part 2

Demonstration of our forthcoming Chinese dictionary software for iPhone. See www.pleco.com for more information on Pleco or visit www.pleco.com/company.html to sign up for our announcement list. (make sure to check out part 2 of this demo as well)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• chinese
• dictionary
• iphone
• abc
• wenlin
• pleco
• translator
• handwriting
• flashcard
• reader
• mouseover
• mandarin

[kentoakowen]

question... I'm studying the Bible in Chinese and it's got tons of words I don't know. Can Pleco run the Bible in Chinese? I have the chinese bible as an app, maybe.. can it open that?

[plecosoft]

@kentoakowen There's no bible plugin built-in, but you can easily download a Chinese Bible as a text file (look for the "Chinese Union Version" or "CUV," that's a public-domain one) and load it into the Pleco document reader. Or if your Bible app lets you copy out a couple of paragraphs' worth of text to the pasteboard, you could do that and bring up Pleco's pasteboard document reader to tap-lookup words in that.

[sk8erfrombham]

so can you draw a character that you don't know and then easily look up the definition for that character?

[plecosoft]

@sk8erfrombham Yes, you can draw a character and easily look up its definition.

[plecosoft]

Coming out this Friday, 12/18 - it'll be listed as "Pleco Chinese Dictionary" in App Store.

[plecosoft]

Not initially, though we'd certainly be open to adding one - we're actually a bit worried Apple will decide that split-screen views don't fit their Human Interface Guidelines and force us to take out the one in the dictionary mode, so we'd rather get that past them first.

[maikemi]

good information but delivered too fast for me to follow...of course, maybe its me...

[tensility]

Awesome! This is simply the nicest Chinese dictionary I've seen yet. Hopefully it will be available soon so that I can buy it in order to use during my second quarter semester of Mandarin. 谢谢！

[manisdogfish]

When will this version of Pleco for the iPhone be open to the public????

[m8condo]

Hope Apple clears this soon. I'll be upgrading from your Palm Vx edition!

[goulniky]

awesome, Pleco was the reason I got a WM phone in the first place, when the iPhone gets a decent screen I'll definitely consider switching over