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I can't believe that you're recommending a 10+ year old piece of technology over the iLiad...Yes the newton was ahead of it's time, but I don't consider it Jobs' gift to man as many of the apple fanboys do.
Using the iLiad for handwriting recognition may or may not work for you depending on the application. If you're taking a lot of technical notes, with figures, numbers, special formatting, etc. It is probably not your best choice if you wish to convert to text. Vision Objects works well enough for normal sentences and dictionary words. However, it is still not as good as Microsoft's handwriting recognition solution with the Tablet PC OS and One Note. If you don't mind reading handwritten notes, the iLiad is great.
As far as everything else... The battery life is okay. It's better than any Tablet PC or UMPC, including the Nokia's.
Since it runs Linux, and is in active development, improvements and 3rd party applications are coming out at a regular basis. If you want to read books and unprotected PDF's the iLiad works very well. Much better than the Sony on typical PDF's. In order to get a PDF to look right on the Sony reader, you will most likely need to run it through a 3rd party program to rotate and crop it, and change the fonts before it is readable. The iLiad, with it's larger screen and advanced software features can view most standard documents without modification. If necessary, you can rotate and/or zoom on the iLiad in order to get the best possible viewing experience.
All in all, it depends on what you need to do with it, and how much work you want to do to achieve the results you are looking for. I, for one, would not trade my iLiad for any other device on the market. Others may not feel the say way...
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