
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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