In case you're considering the Pomera devices, be aware that they use the Japanese keyboard layout, which is just different enough to be really annoying. The b

In case you're considering the Pomera devices, be aware that they use the Japanese keyboard layout, which is just different enough to be really annoying. The backspace key is smaller and there's an additional key to the left of it that doesn't exist on the US keyboard. The punctuation is at different locations for things like apostrophes and colons. The spacebar is smaller due to the IME keys. Since they're digital memos, you can't really write really long texts on them, so no long novels or anything like that (IIRC it's something like 10k characters max). But besides those drawbacks, they're nice no distraction devices. I have the DM30, it's a chonky little bugger that runs on AA batteries. There are instructions on how to switch the menus to English as well.