The biggest hurdle that folks have to getting a Palm has usually been the use of Graffiti, the handwriting recognition system in the PalmOS. While the example at the right shows that it’s not exactly rocket science to figure out how to write words in Graffiti, it was always something that critics and competitors bitched about (even while those competitors dealt with their own handwriting recognition problems).
PalmSource, the OS/software spin-off from Palm, has announced that Graffiti is dead — long live Graffiti 2, based on the Jot engine, which will allow more “natural” and traianable strokes. PalmSource denies that the decision was wholly motivated by Xerox’s copyright infringement suit over Graffiti, but says that was a factor.
Only problems — I’m going to want to wait until Jot is solid, which means for a while, as vendors (Sony and Kyocera, so far) include it in the version of PalmOS they ship, and get it right. I was hoping to replace my Palm Vx this year some time, but I might need to wait longer than that.
Oh, well …
Just get one of those tungsten palms 🙂 *drool*