I think it just might be an option to use my iPhone as a writing tool. Seriously. I realize that might seem like a bold statement, given the fact that the keyboard is considered by many pundits to be its greatest limitation. But I recently found myself responding to an email on the iPhone, and my response went on much longer than I'd expected, with startlingly accurate results. Was it as natural or easy as a keyboard? No. But it was far easier than I'd ever expected it would be. The predictive typing technology is a huge benefit.
After that email effort, I started playing around with typing on it a bit more. It's definitely not as easy with two hands as one might think. Yet using two fingers of the same hand is actually quite easy to pick up and run with.
I'm going to try working with It further. I'm going to see if I can develop a natural enough feel for the software based experience of the keyboard to be comfortable writing lengthy passages.
This post is an example of the effort. It's been completely authored on an iPhone. With relative ease. Frickin' amazing!
Anybody wanna buy an AlphaSmart Dana? :-)