Translators - Electronic > Translation by Language > Russian > Russian Electronic Translator Brilliant 450F

Advantages:

• Easy to use.
• Updated dictionary with modern words and definitions.
• Integrated phrasebook.
• Inexpensive

Dictionary with integrated phrasebook

• Look up single words or phrases (listed alphabetically).
• Translate between English and Russian.
• More than 1,000,000 words or phrases
• More than 50,000 examples of word usage in literature (or in spoken language).

How it's used in a real communication situation:

You just need a word, so you can get an idea across. What is the word for "bridge?" You need to meet someone at the bridge in an hour. Which way do you go? You look up the word "bridge" and show the translation to the other person (or, alternatively, have the unit speak it). With gestures, you indicate you want to know which way.

The other person points. Or, alternatively, the other person looks up "South" and shows you the translation. Head south, and you'll get to the bridge.

What it does not offer:

• Full Text Translation. This feature means the two people can type their own random sentences. For this feature, you must step up to something like the iTravl.
• Speech to Speech Translation. Such a feature does not exist. Maybe about the time ships from the Planet Vulcan are orbiting Earth it will be available.

Smart phone apps. Sometimes, customers ask why they should buy a pocket translator instead of a smart phone app. It's a good question, because smart phones like the Android are awesome products. But then, so are pocket translators.

1. The iTravl and 900-series pocket translators have four translation tools, and most other models have at least two. The app is only one tool, and while it is helpful it's a debutante rather than a specialist.
2. A smart phonecan hold a translation app. Pocket translators are translation devices that also hold other apps.
3. Pocket translators work, whether you have a signal or not.
4. Pocket translators don't report back your location, and don't have a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM card).
5. You won't be barred from bringing a pocket translator into a secure location, because it doesn't have acamera.

Laptops. Yes, a laptop will run circles around a pocket translator if, for example, you want to crunch a big spreadsheet. But pocket translators have some advantages:

1. A mobile device is always on. You don't need to wait for it to boot up, as you do with your laptop.
2. A pocket translator fits in your pocket. Try getting your laptop to do that.
3. A pocket translator weighs quite a bit less than a laptop does.
4. With the pocket translator, you get the full functionality of translator programs, vs something pared down for laptop use.
5. The form factor of the pocket translator is geared toward translation, and that's not true of a laptop.

Human interpretors. If you thought getting a laptop into your pocket was tough, try that with a 150 lb person! A pocket translator has some other advantages:

1. You don't need to schedule a pocket translator to meet you somewhere.
2. You don't need to pay a pocket translator by the hour or buy it meals.
3. A pocket translator is a machine that provides exact translation. A human interpreter, well, interprets. So it's sometimes someone's opinion of what you meant to say instead of what you said.
4. Human translators have varying degrees of competency. Sometimes, they guess.