Casio launches electronic dictionary in India

Updated on: Friday, December 23, 2011

Casio India Company Private Limited launched its much awaited electronic dictionary recently. An electronic dictionary is a small handheld device with an integrated reference material in digital form. These dictionaries will provide convenience in day to day life with a variety of functions like finding meanings of any English/ French word, translation, finding correct spellings, checking plural, noun or past tense of verbs. Additionally, it finds grammatical information about a word. It also helps in finding synonyms or antonyms of a word, collocations of a word and checking the parts of speech of a word. It also comes in with an inbuilt speaker which helps in pronouncing any desired word correctly.

Masayuki Uehara, deputy senior general manager, Global Marketing Division-Tokyo said, “Casio Electronic Dictionaries have a presence in more than eight countries and we have got a very good response for these dictionaries in all overseas markets such as Russia, Germany, China, Korea and France.”

Speaking about the target audience for these dictionaries, Kulbhushan Seth, head, sales and marketing, Casio India Company said, “This dictionary is ideally suited for language students, students preparing for professional English language exams, BPO employees, professionals and people travelling to overseas markets. Moreover, it is a very useful teaching tool in English classes wherein teachers can give live examples to students by connecting this dictionary with projectors.”

The EW- B100C, priced at Rs 7995, has content of eight complete Oxford Dictionaries for English. It has all types of searching features like headword search with example and idiom search. This electronic dictionary provides unique facility of jump search with spelling checker. This dictionary is also equipped with three zooming changeable font sizes. The dictionary has an inbuilt calculator function for doing normal calculations. The dictionary has a total weight of only 175g including the battery. It has got a long battery life (up to 100 hours) and runs on both alkaline and rechargeable batteries.

Casio launches electronic dictionary in India

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