http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ighlight=China Pick up a local SIM card SIM card with CMCC 100 RMB Turned on GPRS (I guess ChinaTelecom has 3g?) try installing SCIM (otherwise no data chinese entry) Here is what I did when there: One way is to used a huge 1 page txt list for a dictionary and then grep from the command line to find the translations... Download City information via wikitravel.org http://wikitravel.org/en/Beijing Download large data at wifi hot spots - wifi place (Starbucks etc) Do not use Boingo - rip off dictionaries http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=cedict http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php phrases (online) http://chinese.travel-way.net/ 3000 common characters (very nice list you can download so you can view offline) http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html -