Customer Reviews

Lingo TravelMate Translator (TR-1650)

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Received - 3/8/06
Died - 3/10/06
In between. - I was using it for German. The vocabulary is
is small despite the ad claims. It only has the
root words.
It would be much better to have it do one language
well than 16 poorly. Obviously, it would have
better if it worked more than 2 days too.

The translation is horrible. I am fluent in English and Spanish and out of 10 words, only 2 were correctly translated.

I bought this translator for a trip to Greece. I wanted an electronic translator instead of a phrase book for convenience and weight limitations in the carry-on. This was one of the few translators, and most reasonably priced, that included Greek in their language options. I liked that the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets were displayed in the responses for Greek and Russian - not just English pronunciations. I did not unfortunately, use the language translator very much - it was easier to speak English when possible (and it was usually possible). It has several additional features that make the purchase worthwhile - a world time clock, calculator, telephone directory, and conversion calculator which was very handy when dealing in the metric system. I wouldn't use this device without prior knowledge of the language, you shouldn't assume every response is correct. There are enough extras on the translator to make it a handy assistant if you know how to use it.

I got this for my dad and it wasn't that good. It knows how to translate "Thank you" but it can't translate "You're welcome" so that was pretty lame. It needs a revision and then it could be more useful.

This is a "really cheap" product. It should most likely sell for $10 or less. It isn't even listed on the manufacturers website. Mine got stuck on a phrase and started beeping - even the "reset" button didn't work. Finally after pressing all the keys "harder" something unlocked and it works again.

This translator should have been a comprehensive dictionary of words of a given language. Many critical words to help one translate signs, menus, and the language are missing. In fact, many needed words are missing. This is a half-hearted effort to sell a product. It would have been much better if they would have chosen fewer languages with a full dictionary of words instead of a scattered selection of words with a few phrases thrown in.

This was one of the few inexpensive translators that would translate to Greek. However when you translate English into Greek it displays it in the Greek alphabet which I am no good at pronouncing. A phonetic translation would've been more appropriate.

haven't used this product yet for our pending trip but have been practicing and getting used to it. Seems like it will be great and is all it was advertised as. DO not know the battery life at this point...

I still have not gotten this Lingo to work properly.
Can I call the Manufacturer to help me?
Please advise. Thanks.

Came in time for Christmas, best price around, and my mother loved the gift! Would definitely work with them again.