LandWare's Wine Enthusiast Guide 2.0

Posted By: Ryan Tuesday, December 6, 2005 10:57:09 AM

LandWare has announced the immediate availability of their second generation Wine Enthusiast Guide for Palm OS handhelds & smartphones. The newly enhanced award-winning Wine Enthusiast Guide now offers instant access to the entire collection of Wine Enthusiast reviews, ratings and retail prices for over 34,000 wines worldwide, over three times the number included in previous years.

Wine Guide for Palm OSThis completely new 2006 edition builds on its position of premier handheld wine guide by adding over 120 enhancements including: importing and exporting of cellar collection details, support for high resolution screens, completely revised user interface, optimizing one handed smartphone operation, sorting of search results, auto fill to assist in rapid searching, twice the number of entries in the vintage chart, a new data structure that further minimizes memory usage and allows for the entire wine database to reside on an external memory card and the ability to update wine reviews and details wirelessly on Treo smartphones. As with previous years, this version also includes: a complete wine cellar and buying list management, a wine glossary with over 1,400 terms and definitions, interactive vintage chart with wine maturity and harvest quality ratings, and an integrated in-depth Wine 101 course.

  Just this month Pocket PC Magazine validated the Wine Enthusiast Guide's leadership position by awarding it the winner of the Dining category in their Best Software Awards.

Key Features Include:

  • Quickly select wines by grape variety, price, rating, style, and region
  • Buying Guide now includes over three times the number of wines included in previous years
  • Import/export wine cellar lists to/from computer
  • New data formats require 20% less space, support faster searching
  • Application and databases can now reside on an external memory card
  • Full support for high-resolution widescreen displays, up to 320x480.
  • Completely revised user interface with full support for one handed D-pad navigation
  • Vintage and harvest quality data expanded to 113 regions/styles spanning 15 years
  • Complete wine cellar and buying list management
  • Maintain personal tasting records and notes
  • Enhanced 5-way navigation on Treo and all supporting models
  • Beam wine details to another handheld
 

The Wine Enthusiast Guide 2006 is available for download immediately for $19.95. A Multimedia Card Edition for Palm OS is also available for $24.95. Special pricing is available to registered owners of previous versions for the next 90 days. A free fully functioning 14-day trial version is also available.

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