Franklin SCD-1890 Speaking Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition

List Price: $119.99 Discount Price: $55.00

Features:

• Newly redesigned speaking dictionary with 200,000+ words
• Clearly pronounces tough words and reads definitions
• Includes spelling corrector, grammar guide, geographical information, and much more
• 9 fun games help build vocabulary
• Local/World clock, built in organizer, calculator & currency/metric converter

Customer Reviews:

Not a good purchase by any means [Posted on 2008-02-29]
If I could put negative number of starts, I'd gladly do so.
Either it was bad choice of manufacturing partner or prematurely released product or both.

Device locks up dead when you try playing built-in Letrix game.
The thing cannot be turned off when it happens. You have either to take out batteries or find a pin and push it into a small hole in the bottom to reset it.

As another reviewer indicated before, the right speaker is a hoax (either there is nothing there or it doesn't work). Sound out of the remaining left speaker is horrendous. Sound in the headphones is no better, which suggests that sound processor is a chip dirt poor quality piece of silicon.

All the built-it games have only one level of difficulty - beginner.

Random word generator is a joke. It can generate the same word many times in a row.

I tried two of them (though the first one was defective). But the second one behaved absolutely the same.

So, either Franklin has some serious issues with product quality, or Amazon is selling "dumpster" batch of SCD-1890's.

And yes, don't be fooled by the picture of the item. What appears to be black on gray text is a decal. In reality text is blue on gray, which indeed in not as readable as black on gray would be.

Great item [Posted on 2008-04-06]
Got this for my wife and she love it too. But the speaking dictionary does sound a bit robotic to me. I am not the user of this unit so I gave it a 5 star cause that's what my wife said she would rate it. Personally, I would give it a 4 star.

Could Sound Better [Posted on 2008-05-09]
Franklin SCD-1890 Speaking Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th EditionThis product is wonderful but could be better if speaking could be more pronounced and understood especially when using tool for Spelling Bee. The mechanical sound distorts the word.

dictionaries anyone? [Posted on 2008-05-11]
This is a good product, will serve any future buyer well. Great transaction. Note that the word search doesn't seem to work in the quotations section. But the item has a real good dictionary.

high number of words- So So definitions (compared to cambridge adnvanced learner's)- A little slow in operation [Posted on 2008-06-18]
It has many words- So So definitions (compared to cambridge adnvanced learner's dictionary)- A little slow in operation

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