The other side of Livescribe pulse smartpen customer review.
I think most of you guys have heard about the plus side of Livescribe pulse smartpen from several articles. Today I like to show some good & frank customer review from amazon.com about Livescribe 1GB Pulse Smartpen. This is from sb-lynn.
“Let me start out by saying this is a cool product, and I do recommend it with the reservations mentioned, below.
On the plus side, it’s a cool toy. If you want to record ephemeralities rather than writing a lot of stuff out, it’s great.
I don’t know whether I would really want to use it to record entire lectures, though, but that has to do with learning styles. I am not an auditory learner – I prefer reading and writing. The more I write myself, the more likely I am to remember the information. For an auditory learner, however, this would be wonderful.
Some of the features need work. The advertised “translation” function is not that great. Here are the languages it can translate: Arabic, Spanish, Mandarin, and Swedish. Not much use to us German-, French-, Italian-speaking folks. But then, it’s really not much use to anyone else, either, because it only has a capacity for a relatively small number of basic words.
The desktop software that allows you to transfer your notes to your computer can only be put on one computer at a time. This is a real mistake, IMO. Many people have a desktop and a laptop and don’t want to spend a lot of time trying to figure out which they’re most likely to want to use with the pen. If you travel a lot, the laptop might win out. But whenever you’re home, you won’t be able to transfer your notes to the desktop.
The software itself seems to work well, and it has lots of bells and whistles. It can upload my notes to the Internet or share them with my classmates. For students, this is undoubtedly a great feature.
Since the pen uses a special kind of paper, Livescribe should offer it in more than one form and size. It comes in a one-subject, spiralbound notebook that is wider than an average college-ruled one. It would be helpful to have the option of a non-spiralbound pad or one that is bound at the top, and to have different sizes: steno-sized or even smaller, and perhaps a
three-subject full-sized notebook as well.
One final comment: this pen isn’t going to be comfortable for anyone with small hands to use for any length of time. It may not be all that comfortable for people with big hands, either, unless they favor the fattest fountain pen on the market. This isn’t a pen-sized pen – it’s a Cuban cigar-sized pen. It’s manageable, but after using it for half an hour, it’s a relief to switch to a regular pen. The Pulse is probably as small as it can be, given the current state of technology, but if I were redesigning it, I would go with a little longer and a little thinner and weight it so that it’s heavier toward the business end.”
I think this great review might help anyone who is going to buy a livescribe pulse smartpen understand more about disadvantage of this product. Happy new year you guys ;])
