A flash card app to help you learn Spanish or English.

Publisher's description:  Spanish / English learning software.
memoWords allows you to learn Spanish / English vocabulary with your mobile phone or PDA at any time.
Now you can learn foreign words in a bus, train, underground, on board a plane (offline mode).

The app "memoWords.ENES" (63 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename:"MemoWordsEs"

Has some key mapping issues on both the Motorola Rambler and i776. Usable on the Rambler using alternate keys as a workaround. Not usable on the i776 as the arrow keys, which are the only way to navigate the menu, do not work.

Keys: If the soft keys or the OK key don't work use these alternate key workarounds: 5 = OK; 1 = left soft key; 3 = right soft key.

Type: Freeware
Vendor: Alanges
Data Connection Required: no
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 2.0
Screen Size: All
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler) Yes
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776):  No, runs but key mapping issues make it unusable
Supported Boost Phones: All CDMA (Bali, Rambler, Rant, Juno, Mirro, Innuendo, Rumor Touch, etc.)

Enter a word in English or Portuguese and get the translation.

Submitted by: WyldeChilde
Type: freeware
Vendor: Xavi
Data Connection Required: No
Minimum Java ME profile: MIDP 1.0
Screen Size: all sizes
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler, reported to work on Incognito):  Yes,
Boost iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776): Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon series with Java (i776, i465, i290, i475, i856, i9, etc.)

The app "MTEnglishPortuguese" (49 KB) is ready to download or send to your phone as filename:"EngPorTran".

As requested here's a dictionary.  The strangely named "Broov Aroma" is not just  a dictionary, it's actually four apps in one; Dictionary, Jokes, cricket scores (Broov is an Indian company and cricket is the national sport of India) and a news reader. The news reader is supposed to deliver headline stories from CNN, BBC or Times of India, but doesn't seem to work. The others three work well.

Because it's online, the dictionary can be much larger than if it had to fit in phone memory. I was able to find every word I entered.  The downside of an online dictionary is that it's a little slow, taking about 20 seconds to return a definition.

Type: Freeware
Author: Broov - Product Page
Data Connection Required: Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series (MIDP-2) with Java  (i290, i335, i465, i776 i856, i9, etc.)
File Size: 178 KB

I got a request for an English- Swahili dictionary, so here's one from KODi.   Swahili is the national language of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The dictionary contains 30717 words.

Keys:
left or *  - delete
call key - toggle English-Swahili-English, select in the menu
up or down - move through results

Type: Freeware
Vendor: KODi - Project Page, Help, Forum
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series (MIDP-2) with Java  (i290, i335, i465, i776 i856, i9, etc.)
File Size: 395 KB

By request here's an English-Polish-English dictionary.  The dictionary's performance on my i776 is excellent. It loads fast and  and searching for a word is almost instantaneous.  The dictionary contains 29599 words and is 468 KB in size.

Keys:
left or *  - delete
call key - toggle English-Polish-English, select in the menu
up or down - move through results

Type: Freeware
Vendor: KODi - Project Page, Help, Forum
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All

I've received several requests for an English - Japanese dictionary but until now haven't found one that was small enough to load on Boost phones. I just discovered the KODi  series of free mobile Java translating dictionary apps. They are remarkably small, only 800 KB for this "full" version Japanese dictionary compared with several MBs for other vendors Japanese dictionaries.

This dictionary is very fast loading and searches are almost instantaneous.  The user interface is attractive and easy to use too. The only downside is that it only provides "rōmaji" Japanese translations using the Latin (Roman) alphabet rather than actual kanji or kani Japanese characters.

Small is a relative term, this app is about 800KB in size and you will need about 2500 KB free space on your phone to install it. Delete any games and apps that you don't use before trying to download it.

Keys:
left or *  - delete
call key - toggle English-Japanese-English, select in the menu
up or down - move through results

Type: Freeware
Vendor: KODi - Project Page, Help, Forum
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All

Are you studing Nihongo (Japanese). Nihongo Master is a flashcard program to help you remember Japanese vocabulary.  The program interface is in Turkish by default. To switch to English, press the "2" key and then press the left softkey (labeled "Gec").

To use the program press the left soft ("Gec") key to display a new English word.  Press the right softkey ("labeled "Goster") to show the romanized Japanese translation.

Type: Freeware
Author: N. Emci
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All

By reader request here's another of DictionaryForMIDs excellent translating  dictionaries. This one is an English - French - English dictionary with about 8000 words. It dictionary itself is from the FreeDict project. It's about 600KB in size but you will need about 2000 KB free space on your phone to install it.

On the i776 and probably other phones the default display uses hard to read blue letters on a black background. If this is a problem, press the Menu key, choose Settings and then uncheck "Colored display" which will give you white on black text.

Type: Open Source  Freeware
Vendor: DictionaryForMIDs - Project Page, Help, Forum
Data Connection Required: No
Boost CDMA Compatible: (tested on Motorola Rambler): Yes
iDEN Compatible: (tested on i776): Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series (i776, i465, i9, i290, etc.)

I'm getting a lot of requests for language dictionaries. I'm surprised at how popular they are.

For you Latin scholars, here's a mobile Java version of the Internet Dictionary Project (IDP)'s English/Latin/English dictionary from DictionaryForMIDs. It's has 8,328 words and is 718KB. You actually  need a lot more than 718 KB of free data space on your phone to install this.  I kept getting errors writing Flash until I freed up over 2600 KB!

If  the colors used for the translated text  are hard to read on your phone, press the Menu key, choose Settings and then uncheck "Colored display".

For everyone who isn't interested in dictionaries, I'll be posting more games and other types of apps starting tomorrow.

If you would like  one of the other dictionaries from the DictionaryForMIDs download page that's less than a MB in size, let me know and I'll post it later in this week

Type: Open Source  Freeware
Vendor: DictionaryForMIDs - Project Page, Help, Forum
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series (i776, i465, i9, i290, etc.)

DictionaryForMIDs 's, mobile Java version of an English/German/English dictionary from the Internet Dictionary Project (IDP). It's 439 KB and contains 9,731 entries.

If  colors used for the translated text  is hard to read on your phone, press the Menu key, choose Settings and uncheck "Colored display".

Type: Open Source  Freeware
Vendor: DictionaryForMIDs - Project Page, Help, Forum
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series (i776, i465, i9, i290, etc.)