Donka's Mobile Rambles

Wikipedia is a well known online encyclopaedia with an abundance of information available at your fingertips. Lexipedia from Revolution provides you with a similar resource ever present on your Pocket PC. The content in Lexipedia is an abridged textual format of the online giant meaning you get perhaps a paragraph or two of the article and no pictures. What this does offer however is an always on hand book of knowledge with over 550,000 articles to peruse. Looking up an article is as simple as entering what you are looking for and tapping the Go icon. Searching is very fast given the number of articles on offer however only the subject itself is searched, not the article body. To assist in the look up of items, a phonetic search is employed meaning even if you are not sure of the spelling, subjects that sound similar will be returned. The content itself is good however there are some formatting issues such as certain dates not included or formatting code appearing where a table or similar should be. For the most part though it is well presented and clear.
If you are after more detailed information or pictures then an alternative concise encyclopaedia may be more suitable however these typically contain far fewer articles. If an overview of the subject is sufficient then there is nothing to touch Lexipedia on the Windows Mobile platform. Please also remember that the textually unabridged version is just around the corner at no extra cost. Lexipedia is available from the Revolution website for $13.99.