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When it comes to handwriting recognition, I really believe that it is far too inefficient yet. I've tried several ones. The Ipaq (running windows mobile), is not that bad (when writing english), but it is still horrible. The thing is that there tends to be a lot of bad matches, combined with a slow writing speed. The "cellwriter" seems to be slow, as you must type every letter by itself, and there is only a small space to write. Also, the iLiad is so slow to update the display, that you'll not be aware of any errors for seconds after writing them.
Another issue is that the recognition is always at the bottom of the screen, which means that you're hand is not over the text, but also that you have horribly little support for the hand.
So I'll keep writing my shaky hand as scribbles for a long time.
Oh, and after two years with a Palm III, I still was utterly useless with Graffiti, so I'm not implementing that. :-) I also tried Familiar Linux on the iPaq, both the built in QT one, and "Rosetta" (with learning), and they worked out really horrible. My last experiment was with the Linux based Nokia 770, and even though it sort of worked, I could type on the on-screen keyboard 10 times faster.
Anyone else actually tried handwriting recognition software? I hear the post-processing one that iRex sells is supposedly quite ok, but that is run afterwards, and not real-time. Might be more sensible though. They have a free demo out I believe.
/R
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