The problem isn't that the device doesn't have Graffiti. As others have pointed out, Palm dropped including Graffiti in their devices some time ago. The problem is that you can't get Graffiti to work, even with a program like Jot, because of the capacitive screen that won't allow for a stylus. Why they went with a capacitive screen, I'll never understand. The screen they've been using until now, that responded to both finger and stylus touches, would've been just fine for this device.
Having said that, I don't think lacking Graffiti is a deal-breaker. I've used a Centro for a while, and even though I can use Graffiti on it, I almost never do. Once you get used to using a keyboard, it's much faster to input text that way than with Graffiti. Even on my old TX, when I wanted to take notes for meetings, I would bring along a wireless keyboard, rather than trying to enter in everything with Graffiti.
I think stylus input should've been kept for things like jotting down doodles and hand-drawn maps, but for text input, it's hard to argue for Graffiti over the keyobard.
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