I have been meaning to create an idiom-dictionary application for mobile phones/organizers for a while. Recently I saw the Apple iPod Touch and was much more impressed then I expected. It is a beautiful interface that deserves the name Graphical user interface as sharp rich color images are effortlessly and smoothly shuffled right before your eyes like a card-sharp shuffles a deck of cards. To scan your music collection in 'Cover flow' is a thing of beauty. I was able to use the built in browser to use the web-app version of whirlword.com and everything worked beautifully. The only disadvantage of using a web-app this way is that it would only work if you are in a WIFI hot spot. It's true that in places other than good-sized cities, hot spots may not be that easy to find but this will probably change before we know it.
The apps that it comes with seem pretty complete and I don't know why anyone who is the least bit visually oriented would want any other smart-phone/organizer. This is more than a shift in a paradigm; it is a warp leap (a la Star Trek) ahead of anything I've seen up to now. Let me know if I'm missing something.
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