Livescribe 1GB Pulse Smartpen APA 00001
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
5 Stars Don’t listen to the nay-sayers- it’s great!
I’ve read a few of the negative reviews, and they all seem to find the Livescribe software to be of issue. I use Windows XP, and I haven’t had the first problem. I use mine for college, I’m 49 and going back to school after so many years, this has really helped me keep up with all the lectures and notes. It works wonderfully. The recordings are clear, playback is easy, and I sync all my notes to my computer with no problems. The only negative I have of the pen is it is a little large, but, not so much that it is uncomfortable to write with, and for the size, the weight is very light.
To the reviewer who said his ink ran out after a week, I’m still using the original cartridge and have written over 35 pages of notes, in a 5 week period, so he may have gotten a bad cartridge.
I only paid a little over $100 for mine, I got it on sale at Target. I would absolutely buy it again, and I recommend it to everyone that asks me about it.
5 Stars Livescribe
This is a great product. It does everything it advertises and more. I gave the pen as a gift, and he uses it all the time for his classes–and just for fun. It is really easy to use. If you are someone who takes notes regularly, the Livescribe is a perfect product for you.
4 Stars great pen… too much money for real use
I just bought this pen as I have problems typing for long periods of time. I am currently writing stories and is a great way to write on the go. It works just as it says. Though, if you want to convert it to typed text, you have to buy a seperate program for it. For an additional 30 bucks. The text conversion was the main purpose for getting this pen, I was greatly dissapointed. I was hoping for a larger variety of dot paper. A smaller spiral bound notebook would have been nice. But all in all it is a great product. There is no volume control on the pen for playback. If you dont need these extra pieces it is a valuble tool.
5 Stars I LOVE This Pen!
I an a secretary and often record meeting minutes. This wonderful tool has made that job a million times easier. The only bad thing I can say is that the software that allows you to turn your hand written notes into editable text that can be exported is an add on that costs an additional $29.95 and is available on the LiveScribe web site. Without this piece, this tool would be more or less useless to me as I would not distribute my handwritten notes as official minutes. Therefore, I would wind up transcribing my notes, which I could just as easily do from a regular notebook without the smart pen. Otherwise, if you’re taking notes that you want to save to your PC and email or otherwise share with others and you and they don’t care that they’re hand written, this pen is awesome!
4 Stars Great product, expensive shipping to Europe
Like already mentioned in other reviews, the pen works remarkably well. The only thing that I like less is the relatively high pressure that I need to apply to make the pen register what I write.
On the positive side the PC SW, which needs to have at least twice as much features to make it really useful, manages to find a search word in my written text. Sometimes I hardly can read my own handwriting, so this is remarkable.
Major drawback were shipping and customs fees to Europe, almost doubling the price. If had not really, really, really wanted the pen, this surely would have stopped me from buying. And at the time of ordering, Amazon did ship the spiral notebooks to Europe but not the journals, pity.
