Should you order Livescribe Echo ?, Pulse smartpen user’s experience
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As Livescribe Pulse smartpen user I like to tell you what I think about new version of Liverscribe smartpen “Echo” Is it worth your money ? First of all this is my Pulse pros & cons (I’ve been using it almost a year now).
Pulse’s Pros:
- Easy transfer your note to PC or MAC – It’s very easy just place your Livescribe Pulse smartpen into the cradle and that’s it the automatic transfer will starts !
- Great for meeting – I’ve learn that you’ll need some time to adjust your “note habit” to fit with LIvescribe such as bookmarking in the very important moments of meeting. But when you are already adapted everything is easy. It’s can help you to have “everything” in the meeting.
Pulse’s Cons:
- Very hard to find Livescribe Pulse’s notebook & ink supplier – this is very inconvenience, If you going to buy Echo maybe you should check your nearby stationary store if they have stock for Livescribe or could they order it for you. If not this issue will drive you mad with the useless 200 USD smartpen.
- Pulse’s battery life is too short - I havn’t charge my Livescribe much just when its “out of battery” symbol appears. but I think it will be very useful if one single chart can long for month ! There are several time that Pulse is turn dead while I’m using it !
- The cradle is not so convenience - Think about when you want to charge the pen you have to fine the cradle ! or you have to carry around the pen’s cradle with you for transferring how inconvenient is that ? I think If the Echo has this USB built in feature it will be great !
- Round shape Pulse make it fall of a table ! – I dropped my Pulse several times ! and every time it’s make me sad !! because you can place it on the table it will roll and falls down !
- You can heard some pen scratching on your recored note – sometimes it’s very annoy with the paper scratching sound on your meeting record.
And this is what I think about the improvepent of Livescribe Pulse on Echo.
- Standard USB to transfer your note and charging great ! it’s easier you can plugged it with standard cable but is it any better if you can have built-in USB in your Livescribe Echo ?
- Not so round shape yey ! no more heart attack on smartpen falls down issue.
I think Echo is pretty much similar to its ancestor Pulse with a little improvement. If you are looking for smartpen that will help you to record while you write this is your only choice ! maybe before you are buying it you might want to check my hugh research on Livescribe Pulse and other smartpen.
