Children often attend schools intermittently in rural areas in Africa and India. This is caused by socio-economic conditions which make pupils augment their family income by working. An e-Learning solution could aid in raising the level of education by making it easier for children to fit schoolwork into the day, acting as a complement to when they are able to attend school. Traditional distance learning solutions based on computers are not suitable due to lack of infrastructure support. In this paper we evaluate both text and voice based smartphone prototype environments which could provides the tools and services for pupils to download educational content, interact with teachers as well as other pupils to discuss topics. These have been implemented as a proof-of-concept and the initial evaluation feedback was very promising. We hope to implement them in the field and evaluate them.