Hi all,
Back with another mobile computing question. I don't know how many of you have tried to study Chinese, but if you have you'll know how fr*gging useless their 'alphabet' is - it consists of about 140 radicals ordered by stroke count which you have to try to identify in the character you're trying to look up, then you look up that radical under a character table, then if you're lucky you can look up the main character. Get the wrong radical or fail to recognise it (and there are several versions of each) and you go back to the beginning. Hopeless - it makes translation even more of a nightmare than it already is.
The solution seems to be handwriting recognition - when you write a chinese character you do so in a perscribed order, top left to bottom right, outside to inside then finishing off, all of which makes character recognition a doddle. This is the reccomended software:
http://www.pleco.com/
Hardware requirements here:
http://www.pleco.com/whichpda.html
As you can see I'm going to need either a Palm or PocketPC tablet to run this. I'm not really into the whole PDA side of things - I've got a journal for that - so this is going to be used pretty much squarely as a dictionary.
With that in mind could somebody please reccomend me some hardware to look for? I'd like one that takes SD cards as my laptop has a built in reader, and a big battery would be a big plus. I'm also told to look out for a 320x320/340 screen to make it easier to differentiate between the different strokes.
Many thanks everyone!
Quick PS - if this post is in the wrong forum apologies and please move it