
Canon has recently rolled out another ultra-light electronic dictionary ‘Wordtank S500′ for the Japanese market. Measuring only 75mm x 140mm x 16.3mm and weighing just 114g, the device offers a 2.4-inch color LCD screen with 320 x 240 resolution, up to 80 hours of battery life and comes preloaded with English to Japanese, Japanese to English and Japanese to Japanese for instant translation. The Wordtank S500 will hit Japan on September 11th for 26,250 Yen (about $283). [AVING]

iRiver has launched its palm-sized electronic dictionary in South Korea. Dubbed as the Dicple D7, the gadget supports a 3-inch touchscreen LCD that supports handwriting recognition, video playback at 30fps, SRS WOW HD sound driver, an FM radio, a Flash player, a PDF viewer, a text/photo viewer, a recording function and a micro SD card slot. This electronic dictionary also features Encyclopaedia Britannica and 24 different kinds of dictionary with authentic native-speaker voice. The 4GB and 8GB models are priced at 268,000 Won and 308,000 Won, respectively. [AVING]

Nurian is famous for its pocket electronic dictionaries. The company today released the X40Kris electronic dictionary, that features a 4.3 Inch LCD display, full QWERTY keyboard, a 4GB of internal memory, and supports Xvid video, Flash, PDF, JPEG, MP3 player function. The gadget provides a total of 79 dictionaries including English proficiency volumes and tests. Measuring 21.3mm thick, the Nurian X40Kris is priced at less than €200 in Korea. [Nurian]

Here is a new “Brain” e-dictionary from Sharp with an e-Book reader and the capability to download e-Books from Sharp website. There is no word on pricing at this time. [Akihabara]

Hanuribiz today confirmed the availability of its nurian X40 shockproof electronic dictionary in the South Korean market next month. The gadget offers a variety of dictionaries in 13 languages with authentic native-speaker voice. Other features included audio and video playback, FM radio, text and image viewer, voice recorder, and more. The price ranges from 300,000 Won to 400,000 Won. [AVING]

iRiver has finally decided to bring the D5 electronic dictionary to the US. It comes in either 2GB or 4GB versions going for $299.99 and $349.99. For all that you get a 3″ 480 x 272 TFT display, a 52-key QWERTY keyboard, several dictionaries including: Korean-English, English-English, Korean-Japanese, Korean-Chinese, support for MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG, AVI (MPEG-4 SP), JPG (3600 x 2400), GIFT (1024 x 768), BMP (1024 x 768) files formats, text viewer, FM radio, and voice recorder. [Pocketables]

Digital Cube will be dropping their i-Station UDIC electronic dictionary in Korea. It features a full QWERTY keyboard, a swivel screen, a 4.3-inch display, text-to-speech support and an Alchemy AU 1250 CPU. Korea is offering tow versions for â‚©398,000 ($396) / â‚©448,000 ($446), so in other words the 30GB / 60GB editions. [SlashGear]

Sharp will be upgrading their RD-CX310 device with a 30GB hard drive, DivX support with the usual audio / video formats, 82 dictionaries, 20 audiobooks, an FM tuner, and a voice recorder, and a 4.3-inch display like the previous model. No word on pricing or availability, but it is said that it should be a bit over the $500 price for the original device. [Akihabara]

Hannuri Biz launched its multimedia electronic dictionary called the Nurian X20 in Korea. It has a total of 11 languages (Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Thai, Portuguese and Russian) and offers an authentic native-speaker voice in your search results. Additional features include: pen-based writing recognition, a 4.1-inch touch color screen along with a pantograph-type keyboard,video playback, mp3 player, image/text viewer, voice recorder and e-book functionality. $337
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