I think a well made, orderly device, hardware wise. But the software i find a bit clumsy. There could be a lot of improvements here to make it really worth using, because it seems not to be made for real-time usage. But it does have some pinyin and pronunciations, so maybe the best for little on the market.
What i do like is that input is pinyin, what i dont is that there is no intonation (fi. rang4). So you have to know the characters to find a Chinese word. There is multiple character word search, and the division between basic and 'advanced' E>C is quite useful. This is only because the 'advanced' is so difficult to handle though. This because there is no direct pinyin (you can cursor to the characters to get the pinyin) and there are many descriptive explanations in the language of the word that you seek. Very not handy because for these description there is no pinyin so there is no way to find out what it is saying (in E>C fi, type 'and' and there is a whole screen full of characters that make your eyes spin...). I think there shouldnt have to be a description at all, just a list of accurate translations is much more practical.
The linking option is very handy, you can find the pinyin, get a clear pronunciation and find the detailed translation of a word or character. Too bad that from the translation there is this strange and confusing sequence of actions to do for it. Also from the translation there is no pinyin and an unclear pronunciation which makes this feature not easy to use in a conversation. And why not make a key or double click to get the C>E translation? The basic (unfortunately only E>C) is i think the best usable because there is a clear screen appearing with just one or a few translations with pinyin and just one button for linking.
I am not that interested in all the extras like the tools and information about China etc, but the pinyin pronunciation seems quite handy. Very meager without some more grammar and particles and stuff like that. And why not a easy clock/alarm screen-saver/function?
All and all, very decent and appears to be quite accurate. BBK's service is outstanding. But i do hope for a serious upgrade.

Beware! This translator does not translate to pin yin, and the speaker volume is very low. The dictionary does pinyin. I might update this review if I find more - good or bad.

I was very impressed with this translator at first - it does work very well to translate from chinese Pinyin, and it is of fairly good quality, but I am now no longer quite as impressed, after buying a nicer one with more features (including a writing pad where I could write what a chinese character looks like and it would look it up for me and find the Pinyin, a feature this one sadly neglects, though it does have a dictionary based on radicals) at 75% the price [although, I bought the other one in Taiwan and don't know how readily available it is here]. So, all in all, it's not a bad translator, but certainly not the best buy for your money

For the price you can't go wrong. Works very well. I will be going to China soon, it will be going with me.

I brought it to help my aunt learn English (native Chinese speaker). It achieve the objective of being a dictionary as expected, and pronounce the words reasonably well in both English and Chinese (clear enough to understand).

One good/bad thing I notice is that it have multiple 'dictionary' (i.e. basic, full and several specialty) It appear that only the basic is the only one that can speak, and all other only display a translation. It would be better if all the meaning are merged into one dictionary.

In a dictionary translation, when speaking Chinese it pronounce each word rather slowly, and highlight each word that it is speaking.

The back light come in handy, especially in an indoor environment. Unfortunately, the Chinese character are in rather fine font, hence could be some what difficult to read for those that need reading glasses. (I didn't notice any option to turn the font to be bold yet...)

I have not really try the whole sentence translation feature.
I have not try the MP3 or data storage function.