Is there a version of Delta Translator available for Palm Pilot, Pocket PC, PDA or other handheld devices?
No. While most PDAs are great for keeping track of schedules, maintaining and organizing contact information (such as addresses and phone numbers), taking short notes and even playing an occasional game, almost all (with the possible except of the very latest) do not have the raw computing power necessary to run advanced machine translation programs like Delta Translator. You should also question the functionality of handheld translators, unless you relish the idea of entering every word letter by letter with a toothpick like stylus!Even before the advent of PDAs, numerous handheld, calculator like devices were readily available on the market to translate numerous different languages including Brazilian Portuguese. Any of them ever produced were little more than expensive electronic toys.
No. While most PDAs are great for keeping track of schedules, maintaining and organizing contact information (such as addresses and phone numbers), taking short notes and even playing an occasional game, almost all (with the possible except of the very latest) do not have the raw computing power necessary to run advanced machine translation programs like Delta Translator. You should also question the functionality of handheld translators, unless you relish the idea of entering every word letter by letter with a toothpick like stylus! Even before the advent of PDAs, numerous handheld, calculator like devices were readily available on the market to translate numerous different languages including Brazilian Portuguese. Any of them ever produced were little more than expensive electronic toys. Whether then or now, handheld translation devices and software programs designed for them only offer quick, literal translations of individual words or short phrasesessentially, the same thing that y
