Livescribe 2GB Pulse Smartpen APA 00002
Livescribe 2GB Pulse Smartpen APA 00002
Sleek ergonomic design with anodized aluminum housing, high speed infrared camera, 300 mAH rechargeable lithium ion battery, smartpen microphone, 3-D recording headset, and USB mobile charging cradle.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Great for Meetings
I use it for work meetings constantly and it works great. Here are some pros and cons:
- Works well in meeting rooms and offices, even when a speakerphone is being used. Records all the discussion in the room. Includes an external speaker – microphone that plugs in for better audio quality.
- Can upload the pages directly to your PC and then word search the written text. It even prints as pdf file…
- Pen has a nice build and not too heavy but the pen cartridge moves and rattles a bit.
- Ink cartridges run out quickly although they provided replacements, including different colors.
- Read the manual, there are some quirks on the way it knows and handles the notebooks.
- I haven’t tried it yet but you can print your own dot paper on a compatible printer.
- You can sometimes hear the pen noise while writing (using the installed microphone) but again you can plug in the external speaker/microphone supplied to avoid the noise.
- Got it as a gift from Costco and comes with 4 college ruled generously supplied dot paper notebooks.
- Had to update the software from the internet but couldn’t do it from work since it was blocked by company network. Tried to get this corrected using Internet Explorer options but worked find from home Cable Network.
- Doesn’t come with OCR software but Vision Objects sells myScribe it separately on the web for 29.00 and integrates directly with the Livescribe software…you would think they would bundle this since it works so well. The OCR software dumps directly to MS Word.
- Livescribe pen software works OK but is a little limited. For example, you have to delete one session at a time from the pen. The interface is not intuitive so did I mention…read the manual.
- The pen is little buggy…lost its brain on date and time…had to reset a few times. Can update the firmware right from Livescribe so thats a nice feature.
- I really like the product and will be looking for the new and improved model once they work out a few bugs.
2 Stars vista 64 bits
When I run the desktop manager on my windows vista 64 bits don’t recognized the pen, and don’t let my transfer the information from the pen to the laptop.
I made a test on windows xp and work’s ok, but on my vista 64 bits doesn’t work.
What can I do to fix this situation?
2 Stars You could lose your files
Google “Unable to access your database folders” for a serious problem with this pen, or rather with the PC software used to search your notes.
5 Stars Works perfectly as advertised
I got this for work. I take lots of notes. This thing is awesome. Lots of people at work are getting them – it’s really catching on.
All I can say is that it does everthing as advertised. You do have to write in their special notebooks, however, that’s not such a bad thing, since the books come in different types, plus the books have calculator sheets as well.
In a pinch, you can print your own special paper with a high-resolution printer.
4 Stars The Pen is Fantastic, The Software is 1/2 done.
So you already know the pen is wonderful, amazing, fantastic and does so much. Clearly created by fanatical geniuses. Unfortunately the desktop software is not quite there yet. In my opinion, the biggest flaw is that you can’t group your pages together into binders or folders. I have a 200 page notebook with sessions weekly from business meetings, classes, lectures and interviews. If I wanted to have a folder labeled “candidate interviews” and move all my pages into that folder, I can’t. This is a serious flaw. There’s no indexing system for your work. So if you have hundreds of pages on your desktop you cannot tag them, index them, group them or associate them together in any way. Clearly 1/2 done.
The other missing functionality is character recognition and translation to text. This would have been a killer feature if it were included but it doesn’t seem to be here and it’s certainly not integrated.
Wouldn’t it be nice if those two things were part of this software?
Finally, someone else asked for this too, why isn’t there a clip on the side of the pen for two reasons; one so it doesn’t roll and two so it can be clipped to the inside of my shirt pocket!
So don’t let that stop you from getting this amazing device but don’t expect to get these functions in the provided software.
