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WikiPock Basic Edition - WikiPock is a mobile phone application that allows you to search and read Wikipedia articles without an internet connection. All the articles are stored in your mobile phone's memory so there is no need to download anything from the network. It's the world's largest encyclopedia with over 3 million articles in English—in your phone, on the go!
WikiPock is significantly faster than searching and downloading an article over the web.
22 languages are included in this edition.
Key Features
- No internet or data connection required. The data is stored in your phone. No need for GPRS/EDGE/3G/Wi-Fi. No roaming or data charges.
- Full editorial content. Everything is included (except images).
- Instant search. Results appear instantly as you type. Benchmark shows that WikiPock is six times faster than searching and downloading a wiki article from the web with a mobile phone.
- Clean mobile-formatted pages. Pages are well formatted and easy to read on your mobile phone's screen.
- Always up-to-date. We provide optional updates for one year so your wiki is always on track with the newest articles and corrections. Check out our Plus Edition.
- Battery-life saver. Since there's no data to download, battery consumption is considerably reduced.
- Easy user interface. Intuitive, nothing to learn.
- Available for Windows Mobile®, BlackBerry®, Android™ and Symbian® mobile phones in English, German, French, Polish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Catalan, Turkish, Finnish, Czech, Norwegian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Romanian.
- NEW! Kinetic scrolling.
- NEW! History. Quick access to recent items.
- NEW! Faster searches.
- NEW! New languages added.
- NEW! Windows Mobile 6.5 support.
IMPORTANT: The Basic Edition does not include updates. The Plus Edition does include updates for one year.
Make sure your phone has a minimum of 4GB of storage space available for Wikipedia in English (1.7GB for German, 1.3GB for French and Japanese, 800MB for Italian, Spanish, 600MB or less for the other languages). A high-speed and reliable internet connection is required to download the libraries.
If you do not have enough storage space or a high-speed internet connection, we can ship you within 1 business day a preloaded microSD memory card. Just follow the instructions in your purchase confirmation email.
FREE! Wikiquote and Wiktionary are included for free.
Wikiquote is a collection of quotations from notable people.
Wiktionary is a dictionary including definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations.
Demo
The screens below show the following actions to retrieve the "Manhattan" and "Borough" definitions:
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- Launch WikiPock application
- Type "Manhattan" in the search field
- Select the first "Manhattan" from the results list
- Click on the first hyperlink "Borough" from the "Manhattan" definition
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Some extra screenshots...
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