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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).<\/p>\n