Fossil with screen off ====================== The lower-right button (and the upper-right, too) shows the watchface for a few seconds if the watchface is set off by default (it is better to have it off by default in order to prolonge battery life). I did observed people with smartwatches and it is normal to have blank screen for most of time... (except the Pebble, of course). The problem with writing lies in different Grafitti shapes and in much more limited tolerance to not-so-perfectly written letters. The writing area size is comparable. So I still prefer to write on a real Palm III and then beam them to the Fossil.