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Brand: Livescribe
Category: CE

List Price: ~~$199.95~~
Buy New: $189.95
You Save: $10.00 (5%)

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

48 reviews

Color: Steel Blue
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 6 x 0.5 x 0.5

MPN: APA-00002
Model: APA-00002
UPC: 892515002019
EAN: 0892515002019
ASIN: B001AAN4PW

Release Date: July 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Record and link audio to what you write
•	Listen to your recordings by tapping on what you wrote
•	Search and share your notes and recordings from your computer

Accessories:

•	3-Year Extended Service Plan - Covers Electronic Items $0-$200 - Repair

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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.

Customer Reviews: Read 43 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars

Mac Users Beware January 8, 2009
Peter Pappas (Rochester, NY United States)
You won't see this anywhere in the ad, but at this point the upload to the "community" is not supported on the Mac side. It's a Windows-only feature. I'm returning my pen since I feel that sharing the work is a key feature. I spoke to Livescribe and they say a new Mac software is in the works. They could not tell me if this functionality was being addressed.
Two other points:
1. I find the Livescribe web support to be lacking - it was very difficult to find info about Mac functions.
2. The recording headset did not work. Bad connection with the pen - not sure if that was a pen or headset flaw.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Computer in a form of a pen January 7, 2009
Juhani Luukkonen (New Zealand)
I got my Pulse Smartpen just one month ago and now I keep it with me all the time. It is simply great. Armed with iPhone and this Pen I can survive any business meeting or brainstorming and still have my ducks in a row. I recommend highly this pen for everyone.

5 out of 5 stars

SWEET pen, high price, great quality December 31, 2008
G. Pedroni (Bensenville, il United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I watched this pen for a year before it came out. I bought it on day one, and still love it. I use this pen for business only. I use it daily in meetings. The audio quality is wonderful. The head phone suck. They are uncomfortable, but their recording functionality is great when it comes to recording 3d audio... but thats something I almost never have a need for so the headphones are almost never used, they just hurt my ears and in business meetings, it wouldn't fly.

Audio recording is great. Sound playback is like any other device on the market. The only drawback I noticed was when we had a large business meeting in a massive hall the audio did pickup each person talking, but as expected it sounded a bit distant, but that was to be expected since everyone was spread out.

The text writing is very useful, especially in business meetings since a lot goes on that you down write down, but you can always play back what you missed. I wish I had this in college, I probably would have caught more of the lectures and just got a little more edge over all.

OCR was not an option for several months but it finally came out. I'm happy with it. OCR is the hand written text to digital type. It does suck that I have to pay $30 for it, but its worth it. It also does a good job on drawings but don't think you can design anything abstract with it. I don't do many drawings so I can't vouch for how good it does on complicated drawings. The text, as long as you write clean, and legible, it will convert the text just fine. But, as with all OCR its never 100% accurate. But, the software allows you to edit before you save the conversion which is great.

The quality of the pen is superb. Definitely feels like high quality aluminum, and a great paint finish. Everyone who sees the pen is impressed. I advertise it to all of my business colleagues as if i owned the company. a few of my co-workers have bought the pen and love it as well. It's great for business, and good for school.

The price point is very high.. but I got over it after using it for a month.

The other teaser apps are still in build. but using them is GREAT! They will be paid options like anything else on this pen. The translation tool, i'll probably definitely get. It would be great to help with learning new languages such as Spanish and Chinese and more. I'll definitely pick those add ons once they come out. The programs from the demos seem to really pickup even sloppy writing.

The search functionality in the computer software app is awesome. you can search quickly for ANY word or combinations. It even picked up my co-workers sloppy hand writing that I couldn't read very well. Probably my eyes being biased on sloppy hand writing, but the software did a great job of understanding the slop.

they just came out with being able to print your own paper (finally!) but I haven't used it it just yet. Hopefully its a win also. Overall i've had this pen for almost a year, and I love it. I got another for my dad, and another for my brother in college.

3 out of 5 stars

good, but wait a version December 22, 2008
K Sky (San francisco, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I love the concept of the pen and it does alot of things really well. But some annoying features persist:
-the software keeps asking me to register, which I've done 3 time now, and its just keeps interupting me asking me to register;
-even if the pen is writing doesn't mean the software can read it. I haven't figured out what the problem is, but alot of meetings I write in my lap and the writing in the notebook looks fine. But there's a bunch of skips in what the software reads--like the end of a cursive word gets cut off, or the cross of a T. I don't know if I need to press more or hold the pen upright more.
-no pen cap. the leather case is huge. I just want a cap so I stop writing on myself.

Wait a year: one more version and I think it will be worth the money.

5 out of 5 stars

Awesome Product! December 22, 2008
Dan Baker (Los Angeles, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The technology is truly amazing. It performs as advertised. I'm a student and am using this for reading and lecture notes. I had been using a tablet PC but it is such a pain to lug around (not to mention the distraction of surfing the internet during class!). This pen is very portable. The notebooks are high quality and sturdy. With my laptop, I end up having some notes on my PC and some in a regular notebook. It gets a bit confusing. That's not the case with this pen because everything in my notebooks gets uploaded easily to my PC. The only minor inconvenience is that my professors often make lecture notes available (PowerPoint slides). I used to "print" to Microsoft One Note and annotate directly on the slides. With the special paper requirement of the pen, I'm not able to do that anymore. Not a big deal but something to note.

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