Hand-held devices for learners

[Claire Bowern]

Hi Andrea,
What sort of price range is "inexpensive"? Most of the things I can 
think of are at least US$200 - Palm Pilot or PocketPC PDA sort of 
things. Is that the sort of thing your friend is looking for?
Claire

Andrea Berez wrote:
> Hello List,
> A friend of mine is working with an elder in her community to learn her 
> heritage language, and has asked for a recommendation for a hand-held 
> device with the following features (in order of priority, high to low):
> 
> 1. Inexpensive
> 2. For viewing Word documents, pdfs, and images of scanned paper materials
> 3. Capable of "handling audio" (she wasn't more specific than this; I 
> assume she means mp3 playback or the like, but she may mean low-quality 
> recording as well)
> 4. Internet capable
> 
> If you can suggest such a device, I would be much obliged. Remember, 
> it's not necessarily for fieldwork, but rather for convenience.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Andrea Berez
> 
> 
> 
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