Hidden features of my phone

My Chinese edition Nokia 2710c has a Chinese-English dictionary as one of the pre-loaded native apps. In fact the main reason to buy a new phone here in Chine was to make sure it can deal with Chinese text. Most phones sold outside of China can not (Apple's iPhone being a notable exception, but at 6x the cost).
What puzzled me from the beginning though was the fact that there appeared to be only a English to Chinese dictionary, and not the other way around. In the beginning this was not much of a problem, because my main use of the dictionary was to type in a English word, and then show the Chinese translation to a local. I never bothered to try to actually say it out loud, as I could not read the Chinese word anyway.

Recently I discovered there is also a Chinese to English dictionary built in, but to be able to use it, I had to change a setting hidden somewhere in the menus of the SMS text editor. After setting the value for writing language to Chinese, the dictionary now shows two alternative entry methods: pinyin and wubi (5-stroke).
The SMS editor and address book have always shown all three entry methods: abc, pinyin and wubi, but for some reason the dictionary did not. The only other effect of changing the writing language setting to Chinese, is that the default entry method for the SMS editor and address book changed from abc to pinyin, which means you have to toggle it to abc first when writing an English message, or searching for a Western name in your address book (I store all my contacts with Western or pinyin names, never in Chinese characters).
The wubi entry method involves typing the first few strokes of the character (in the proper order, but that is consistently from top to bottom and left to right), upon which a horizontal scrollable list of candidates is shown, where the right one can be picked from. The candidates are sorted according to the frequency of use, and also depending on the previous character entered, so usually the right one is very near the beginning of the list.

With the newly found Chinese to English dictionary always in my pocket, I am suddenly able to understand a lot more of the written Chinese around me. Even if I have never seen the character before, and do not know how to write the pinyin representation, nor how to pronounce it, I can quickly find it in my phone's dictionary thanks to the wubi entry method. The dictionary then shows not only the translation(s) of the word in English, but also the pinyin representation, so I also know how to pronounce it. Very helpful!