Just installed the new 2006 OS. The HWR still sucks! I can tap a lot faster with the small virtual keys than hand writing (which is very sad). As with the full screen thumb keys, I wish I can map one of the keys to complete a word instead of tapping on the document screen. Downloading Ubuntu, hopefully I can get root access soon.

I am getting ready to upgrade. Now that i have had the 770 a couple of weeks, i have developed the same love-hate relationship with Nokia that I have with Apple. It will be nice to give them the finger.

PhatWare's PenOffice (which uses the Calligrapher HWR engine) is the next best thing to a Newton. If only they could be pressed into producing a Linux version...

I just wanted to ask all you guys who complains on the HWR if you have tried "training" the software? It looks like the 2006 version has better posibilites for doing this.

I also wanted to say that the HWR on both 05 and 06 versions worked pretty good for me after training that is.

The 2006 version allows the user to disable handwriting patterns that are causing problems. So if you find that a particular pattern that doesn't really match your handwriting style, you can now remove it from use.

I finally upgraded to 2006 and it is good. I like the new big keyboard but have the gone and tweaked the normal one? It seems less sensitive than before and some strokes are harder to make (like the up to capitalise seems more finicky). I've turned the sensitivity right up but I still seem to get missed keys. They click like you've pressed them but then nothing happens. Seems worse on the big keyboard and worse when typing fast.

I haven't played with the handwriting much but in the quick try I had it seemed a bit better. I will have to try the new training options and see if that improves it. Like a lot of people I wish I could run the old Palm style Grafitti on it. Once you knew the strokes for that you could really imput quite fast and with less mistakes. On the 770 I spend as much time correcting mistakes as typing!

I also noticed a bug where it wasn't clearing the screen on the handwriting area properly so it would leave behind letters I had written. Made it really hard to use! Haven't been able to reproduce that yet though.

Has anyone looked at the Vision Objects Site in regard to getting a better HWR solution. I think the recognition engine used is the same that Apple used with the last series of the Newton. They have a port for Linux and are looking for people to get it to work on Linux embedded devices. I have the PDF but have not looked at it yet, if true this would be one of the better HWR solutions out there.

jroman91

I've noticed the degradation in the keyboard sensitivity as well. It's the only real issue I have with the beta release.

It's not just me then! It was fine before. Why did they go fiddle with it! Other than the sensitivity and missed keys the fingerboard works quite well. Looks ugly but works well.

They also put the + on the number pad in place of the -. Is there some way to bring back the -? I use it more than I realized... I hardly ever use the +.