Canon Wordtank IDF-3000

The Canon Wordtank IDF-3000 seems to be the updated version of the IDX-9700. It looks much better, with a bigger, clearer screen and much faster lookup. However, the functions don’t seem to work quite as well as the older models.

The IDF-3000 seems to contain different dictionaries from the older models like the IDX-9700. Japanese word lookups come up blank quite often, apparently more so than with the IDX-9700. For example, if you look up “refrigerator” in the English-Japanese dictionary you get “reizouko”, as you would expect since it’s a common word. But if you look up “reizouko”, it’s not in the Japanese-English or even Japanese-Japanese dictionaries. I can’t quite understand why this newer model doesn’t have all the words that the older ones do.

This model costs about 10,000 yen, and English manuals are available.

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