{"id":2097,"date":"2012-03-09T14:32:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2012-03-09T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:32:48","slug":"an-app-that-might-be-worth-its-28-99-price-tag-oxford-advanced-learners-dictionary-for-android-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/an-app-that-might-be-worth-its-28-99-price-tag-oxford-advanced-learners-dictionary-for-android-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"An app that might be worth its $28.99 price tag: Oxford Advanced Learner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dictionary for Android &#038; iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oed_android_120309.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"oed_android_120309\" width=\"240\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oed_android_120309.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oed_android_120309-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>The most I&#8217;ve paid for an app is $9.99. I&#8217;m hard pressed to name an app I might consider buying that costs more than that. However, if you do, here&#8217;s an Android app that might be worth its relatively high $28.99 price:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.slovoed.oald\">Oxford Advanced Learner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dictionary<\/a> (Google Play)<\/p>\n<p>A version is also available for the iPhone and is being developed for Windows Phone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/oxford-advanced-learners%20dictionary\/id442911228?mt=8\">Oxford Advanced Learner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dictionary<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNote that this app is not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/\">full OED<\/a>. The complete OED covers more than 600,000 words. This app includes less than a third of that number (184,500). On the other hand, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ams.oup.com\/user\/newacct.cgi?title=oed\">OED Online version<\/a> costs $295 per year for a subscription. The Android and iPhone apps are priced at $28.99.<\/p>\n<p>Is it worth it? I have no idea since I have not tried either release. And, there aren&#8217;t enough customer reviews on either site to draw a conclusion. Still, if words are your thing, it is a good-sized subset of the OED.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Curiously, the iOS version weighs in at 412MB while the Android version is a featherweight at a mere 2.8MB. The Android version&#8217;s product page notes that it requires network access. So, it might not be suitable if you need to use it when not in range of 3G or WiFi access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most I&#8217;ve paid for an app is $9.99. I&#8217;m hard pressed to name an app I might consider buying that costs more than that. However, if you do, here&#8217;s an Android app that might be worth its relatively high $28.99 price: Oxford Advanced Learner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dictionary (Google Play) A version is also available for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[174,139],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-mobile-devices","category-iphone-apple","tag-oed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-xP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}