Why buy the World Factbook?
Since the CIA World Factbook is available on-line and can be freely downloaded for off-line browsing, you might wonder why anyone would shell out the 19 and a half Euros and buy the World Factbook from JDictionary-Mobile. I think there are two good reasons (three if you own a 9210). First of all, the World Factbook by JDictionary Mobile only occupies about 4Mb. If you download the CIA version, the zip file is around 30Mb. Uncompressed it even takes up a whopping 80Mb of MMC space. As far as I can tell, both versions contain the exact same information (I have to admit I didn’t read everything so I could be wrong). Packing all this information into only 4Mb is quite an impressive feat. Of course you can always browse information online, but that’s generally speaking quite expensive (especially on a 9210 without GPRS) and only works if you can setup an Internet connection (which is kind of hard if you’re in an airplane for example). The second reason is that the user interface of JDiction
