[jyl]

Moved following from other thread

You iPhone users, check out Writepad which is a handwriting recognition app for iPhone. More of a demo app so far, shows the ability of the HWR but can't do much with the notes once written. But IMO quite accurate for printed words. I find the iPhone's onscreen keyboard okay but an alternative input method would be nice. IPhone already uses HWR for Chinese characters and it is pretty good. HWR for English could simply be an alternate keyboard much like Chinese users can choose character or pinyin.

Also if too cheap for SMS check out Beejive, a persistent psuedo push IM client. When you leave the app then receive an IM the server sends you an email with a link. Click and the IM app opens as if you never left. Your prior chat is there with the message you received while away. To others it looks as if you were online the whole time. Until Apple releases the real push API this is as close as it gets.