I'm not persuaded that the Newton's way of letting you write anywhere is such a great one; I'm not persuaded against it either, never having had a Newton. (I do know it, even confined to the dedicated area of a hildon-input-method, would spank the Nokia's HWR.) But one thing I can say against it: It inhibits porting of programs from "normal" OSes. When programs expect mouse and keyboard input, stylus and some dedicated text input method is one of the easiest ways to make that work. Maybe it should only be a fallback system, but for a device I use the way I use my N800, it must be there, and it must work right; hence my use of the finger keyboard at present. If graffiti or similar was available, I'd almost certainly switch.