I am using Swype on my Nexus One, and it is a gods-end to typing on the display.

Hells bells, I remember this malarkey!

I believe it was when Alan Sugar still had dark hair and wore short-sleeve pinstripe shirts that he released a yolk that let you enter text this way, as did many other companies.

It lasted for a while as a fad, but then the clamshell Psions came along and put a stop to all such nonsense.

So am I to take it that one-letter-at-a-time handwriting recognition is the next big thing in organisers? And if so, would small but functional QWERTY keyboards succeed them in a few years on whatever spangly new WIDs come out, only to die out when people decide they want compact touchpad devices to act as mere viewers instead?

Like Shirley Bassey said, side-step the code segments prone to causing infinite loops.