Seiko DF4033 Six Language Translator, Organizer and Travel Alarm

Editorial Review:

Travel easily through Europe using this Seiko six-language translator with organizer and travel alarm. Cross-translate English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese with the database of 200,000 words and phrases.

The organizer stores more than 160 names with multiple phone numbers and addresses. Other features include world time for 32 cities, and a travel alarm with 10-minute snooze.

Entries are easy to read even in dim light with the backlit LCD display, and you can enter information using the full keypad and function keys. Password protection keeps your private data from prying eyes. This translator weighs only 6.5 ounces and comes with a one-year warranty.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0

Very disappointed - limited dictionary:

I bought this device because I thought it might help me on a vacation to Spain. Boy was I disappointed. The number of words especially common travel/tourism related-words, that it knows is small. The unit is hard to operate. Even the travel alarm is poorly implemented. Save your money. Buy something else (like a good phrase book).

Disappointing, I returned it.:

... Unfortunately,while I found it very easy to operate and very compact, I found using it to be quite disappointing. The first word I looked up was the German equivalent of "train" but the Seiko didn't contain "train," "train station" nor "locomotive" in its dictionary. Considering that much of European travel is done by train, it seems a pretty basic word that should have been included in an item aimed at European travellers. Ironically, they did include "trainer," which I think is far less necessary than... more info

Nice for the price:

The Seiko DF4033 Language Translator is a nice little unit. It's small enough to fit into a shirt pocket, but it will bulge a bit, since it is about 3/4 of an inch thick. It has a backlight which makes it easier to read the screen in dim light. However, each of the keys serves two functions: the main function (such as a letter or numeric value) is printed right on the key and is easy to read, whereas the secondary function (attained by pressing the SHIFT key) is printed in orange over black making it harder... more info

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