Second, there’s a separate function for numbers. This can be very handy when describing dates (years especially) and large numbers. Once again, you can type in the numbers and see the resulting words in both French or English. The final option on the bottom menu bar lets you see a history of your searches on the app. Words within the app are linked to the various functions – so you can tap on a word and it’ll throw up a menu which includes the option to conjugate that word. A list of popular and useful phrases would have completed this otherwise very comprehensive and useful dictionary application on the Palm Pre smartphone.

The interface is certainly quirky and colorful, but it is very functional indeed – so you won’t find any problems in that department. The text and position diagrams on the strings are clear and relatively high-contrast, so you’ll be able to park your smartphone on a chair a few feet away and practice the diagrams on your guitar quite easily. Each chord and scale comes with an info box that goes into more detail regarding the symbols and corresponding notes associated with it. Some minor issues include the presence of interface elements even when their contents are empty, but otherwise this is a fantastic reference for novice guitarists as well as the pro’s. A welcome addition to the Palm Pre apps catalog.

Clicking on a video within an article will launch a new card with the YouTube application on your Pre. Everything is fast and smooth, and browsing articles is a breeze. You can bookmark articles for later perusal or if you find yourself frequently visiting a small set of how-to pieces. The bookmarks are available as a list from the top menu button. You can also increase or decrease the font size through the same menu. Articles do not come with a contents section, so it’s easy to get lost in some of the longer articles (especially since the Pre doesn’t offer a scroll bar to show your relative position in the page). Sadly, there is no search option at present but browsing and discovery is made much easier with the related articles section at the bottom of each article. Overall, this is a nice new app for the Palm Pre that can come in handy in unexpected situations – a must download for every Palm Pre owner.

This is a pretty popular application on other platforms, and I suspect it’ll remain one of the better Wikipedia apps on the Pre for a long time to come. Searching is fast, but there’s no way to hook this application up with the Pre’s Universal Search feature (which will still take you to a browser rendering of the wikipedia page). Hopefully Palm will expose those hooks to allows apps such as this to integrate better with search and other WebOS services.