So, many of the readers are fairly tech savvy I believe. I've recently thought that I need to get a gadget for Sky. The hope would be to have one device with which she could do all the things she might want to do.
The new iPhone is a great example - it has a reasonably high quality still camera, hi-definition video, it plays music through our speakers, and Sky could access things at work like medication libraries and such. Plus, Sky has played with one before and she found it easy to use and understand, even attractive to use. Right now we have our big dSLR, we would have to get a little video camera, and she has to have the iPod for music. This is a lot of stuff to haul around.
Unfortunately, the iPhone is a couple hundred bucks plus a minimum of $50/mo for a data plan she probably won't use almost at all. This seems too much for what we want. The new iPod touch seemed like a happy medium but the still camera is supposedly not good at all, which is a key feature.
So...is there a multi-use device out there that can fill all our needs? Crucially, this is something that can shoot stills and video and upload it to the web without a computer (over WiFi), but also play music preferably on a 30-pin dock, and have access to the App Store or the Android Market. Or do we get a new micro point-and-shoot that does decent video? What have other parents done?
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