Donka's Mobile Rambles

I reviewed Lexipedia previously and was fairly impressed with the ability to have such a large repository of data available at all times while offline. This was the abridged version that I reviewed which had its own issues though such as dates sometimes being missing and the data on the majority of articles are cut off when it reached the allotted limit. I have recently been using the full textually unabridged database now and it works great. You have the full article texts and all dates appear present and correct. No images are included which is fine for the purposes of this application and you have access to all the articles available in the online Wikipedia. The only issue I have found with this full version is the occasional formatting script where a table or image would normally be present. Not a big deal in my opinion and easy to turn a blind eye to. I also took the opportunity to install the latest 1.2 version but if I am being honest, I could find no visible changes or improvements over the previous version so I can only assume everything is ‘under the hood’. Searching works very fast; typically a second or two and phonetic searching also gives you a ‘sounds like’ searching ability although I have to say this was not perfect and might take a couple of incorrectly spelled attempts to find the relevant article. One thing I would love to see added to this application is an option to search the article text as opposed to the title if at all possible. I realise this would be a much longer search but I would be happy to wait five minutes for a search to complete if for example you wanted to know which was the closest planet to the sun and didn’t know the correct answer. It would be great to search for ‘closest planet sun’ as opposed to each individual planet until you found the correct one.
All in though, unless you have a permanent, fast and cheap mobile internet connection, I would recommend this application for those with a thirst for knowledge. Oh, and a spare 777MB of storage space!